"I come by order of Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, blessed by God, eternal Augustus, king of all Rome, Italy, Spain, Sicily, and Naples, and according to the Carolina Penal Code, your Protestantism is sinful, and in the name of Almighty and Supreme God and in the name of Charles V, who is favored by God, I now command you, not to be allowed to resist, and to open the gates!
Otherwise, we will continue to attack. ”A messenger sent by the Duke of Mauris shouted outside the city of Magdeburg.It was the forty-second day of the siege of Magdeburg.Located on an endless plain with the Rabe River in the background, Magdeburg was fortified by Henry I since 919 to infer his weight over the Magyars and Slavs.After many years of construction, the fortress of Magdeburg has become impregnable, and with the open view of the plain to observe the movements of the enemy army at any time, Magdeburg has become a strategic place with an advantageous position and easy to defend and difficult to attack.The Magdeburg people did not bother to persuade the envoys to surrender; They all understood how the Carolingian Code, issued under the harsh and harsh government, dealt with the heathen, and that burning, splitting, hanging, and so on were the most normal things.A man from Magdeburg was also sent to begin to insult the envoy of the Duke of Mauris, and the two men exchanged words and began a war of curses, and all kinds of filthy and obscene language poured out of their mouths.Both of them widened their eyes and looked very funny with sweaty faces and red ears, but they eventually returned to their respective armies.The army of the Duke of Mauris formed a long line of snakes on the open plain, which was effective in dodging the attacks of the Rolling Stones and Mullets.The soldiers of Magdeburg took a vantage point on the fortress, and at the sound of the command, they drew their bowstrings at forty-five degrees, an angle that allowed the arrows to fly the farthest distance.The soldiers on both sides held their breath in front of the battle, and the battle was like an arrow, and it was about to break out.At this moment, a strong wind blew in the sky, and the wind and sand were raised with the sound of war drums, fascinating everyone's eyes.After the wind and sand passed, the Duke of Mauris's men sounded the horn to prepare for the charge."
Moo!"
The knights were about to turn over and get on their horses, but the horses struggled with their might.One of the horses stood up, "Herod's Law", and suddenly abandoned the owner and turned away, and the rest of the horses followed the leader and ran away, leaving the stunned knight after a mess.Suddenly, the earth shook, and three suns appeared in the sky.
(Note 2) The Duke of Mauris was stunned to see such a vision, rubbed his eyes, and asked the servant beside him, "Oh my God, is God stopping us?"
I actually saw three suns, did you see them too?
”The servants hurriedly nodded yes, and Maurice slumped into his chair and said, "The whole army retreats."
No fighting, no fighting. ”At this moment, the Maoist army was not as brave as the stragglers, completely lost the will to fight, discarded the baggage and grain and grass, and fled in a hurry.At this time, everyone in Magdeburg looked in horror at the three suns in the sky.No one expected this vision, and the people of the city fell to their knees and wept, "Is this the punishment for Protestantism?"
”Many extreme Magdeburgers chose to hang themselves during this night, believing it to be a punishment for Protestantism, a wrath from the Almighty Creator.The people of the city were in a panic, and the food and daily necessities were swept away by the frenzied people overnight, so that Magdeburg, which had been besieged by the Duke of Maurice for forty-two days, was on the verge of collapse overnight.When Etina and Silas escaped from Magdeburg, which was no longer peaceful, the people became irrational and insane, and some even began to shout, "These are all witches!"
Witches do it!
It was the witch who kept us out of God's favor anymore!
”The inferiority of human nature is now on full display, and the scene inside the city is like that of Sodom before its destruction.The indulgents are arrogant in the streets, the murderers slaughter the innocent and the poor, and the robbers wantonly break open the coffers of the nobility.But they all claim to be victims, and the witch is blamed for all this, and it is the witch who bewitches them, and it is the witch who makes them do what they do.The empty eyes of the city find an excuse for catharsis, and a dangerous game called "witch hunting" begins.Unable to explain the three suns in the sky and unwilling to admit that God had given up on them, people easily attributed their fear of the unknown and their fear of witchcraft to witches.People hold a book called "The Witch's Hammer" and blindly believe that this is the most authoritative witch hunting manual.(4) The book declares that "witchcraft comes from a woman, which is never satisfied in women, and the devil knows that women love pleasures, and seduces them to be loyal with that pleasure", so the crazy people set their sights on the pretty girls."
The more beautiful the girl, the more likely she is to be a witch!"
This absurd idea became the mainstream of thought in Magdeburg and gradually spread throughout Europe.The hysterical insults to these beautiful young girls in various ways, the stabbing of their hearts with sharp words, and the use of red-hot irons to hold them or blindfold them as they walked over red-hot plowshares, an act that the ignorant thought would identify the real witches.There are more and more versions of this absurd behavior under the rumors, or lynching.If she was deemed a witch, her property would be confiscated, and some greedy judges colluded with the evil officials to take the lives of hundreds of young girls.The cold moonlight shone on the land, and Silas clothed the sleeping Atina with her own coat.They lived for months in a remote log cabin, an abandoned stable.The straw stalks in the stables were woven into a thin mat by the ingenious Etina and laid on the ground.The two lived a very frugal life these days, and Silas chopped some wood with a rusty broken axe and lit a bonfire to warm the pretty woman in tatters.Silas wanted to spend the rest of her life peacefully with Adina in this little stable, after all, the people outside were like crazy, and the whole society was like a melting pot."
There are footprints on the ground!
Go this way!
”It was a group of villagers holding torches alof.Each of them had a copy of the Witch's Mallet in their bosoms, and they searched everywhere for traces of the witch; Their gaze is like that of a pack of hungry beasts searching for their prey.Note 1: The name of Charles V is so many that I can write hundreds of words, and interested friends can go to Wikipedia to search for it; The Carolinian Penal Code is the harshest and most terrible penal code ever written in the West, and can be found in nstitutiocri Wikipedia Note 2: Allevs, published in 1486 by the Catholic monks Krama and Sbrunn, which exacerbated the fear and persecution of witches.