Chapter 2250 Fiery frenzy (ten)

  It is best to be a chess player in a war, and you can fully enjoy the fun of playing chess. It is not pleasant to be a chess piece, but it is also much better than a chess board. Belgium is the place that is used as a chessboard, it has been occupied by many countries, and these countries have also left some traces.

  The dart cavalry in beautiful uniforms did not stop here. After entering the city with the scenery of Bruges, they stayed in the French manor next to the Lake of Love. Bruges is called the "Venice of the North" not only because it is a water city like Venice, but many buildings in the city are red, which was the popular color of Florence during the Renaissance. As an important trading city in the north, Florence is beautiful. The Ditch family also has a branch in Bruges.

The French-style manor has a blue roof and pink-yellow walls. In addition to the Church of the Holy Blood, there is also a St. Donatine Cathedral in the Castle Square in the city center. It is used to worship the bones of St. Donatine. During the French occupation, it was Flattened to the ground, building materials were used to build this "palace".

  Minne means love in Dutch, but this lake is actually more appropriately called Swan Lake because there are many swans in the lake.

   Not far from the lake and the estate is the Beguinage, where the nuns planted a lot of grapes for wine making. Overall it was a very peaceful, idyllic, fairytale-like place, but Georgiana couldn't calm down.

   When they had settled down, Bonaparte came after a quarter of an hour. When the others saw him appear, they all left one after another, and she looked at him silently.

   "I've been to the Inquisition," he said after a moment. "That place doesn't look like it."

   "I didn't say it was a court, it might be a prison where prisoners are held." She said calmly, "If you want to carry out torture, it's best to find a place away from the crowd."

  Napoleon's expression is very vivid, although when he plays the role of commander, he will be wearing an ancient Roman mask, and his expression at this moment is the same as that of a normal person when he hears it.

   "Austrians?" he asked after arranging his emotions.

"No, that castle has been abandoned for a long time, and this one." Georgiana floated the cross in front of him. "There is an inscription on it, 1619, at that time this area should belong to the Spanish Netherlands, There were several bad weather during that time, and it happened to be the peak of the witch hunt, or 'nationalwitch-hunt' as it was called. Not all places are hot spots, like Paris, London, Antwerp, Madrid, Amsterdam, Nuremberg are considered unnecessary witch hunts, but Lorraine and the Spanish Netherlands are where the largest witch hunts take place land."

   She sighed when she said this, as if she was accumulating energy, and then continued, "There was a way to test wizards at that time, throw suspects into water, and if they float up, they are wizards..."

   "I know what that is," interrupted Bonaparte.

   "I read a record of the Inquisition in Udine, when the Pope was involved in the trial of a healer named Michele Zope."

   "I remember, we were at Renard Manor, and I asked what you were looking at." He also sighed, "You later brought the topic to art."

   He reminded Georgiana to remember.

   "You were in a bad mood." Georgiana said softly, "I want to make you happy."

   "I want to hear it now, what's going on with that case? The Pope actually wanted to hear it himself."

  Georgianna paused.

"There was a little boy who died," she said softly. "His cause of death was systemic failure. The accused Michele, a therapist, first refused to grant the request of the mother of an eight-month-old girl, for that The child was treated, and then the mother accused him, some people thought he was a cunning liar who used witchcraft to deceive people, and also accused him, it was 1650, the previous victims were mainly women, and not only men since then, Even the prince can be accused of witchcraft. I think the trigger for what happened outside the Prague window was that a duke dismembered his mistress and threw her body out the window so he wasn't tried, and then the commoners of Prague Throwing high officials and clerks out the window."

   He still listened quietly.

"I found the Latin word in that place just now, and it means, 'There is a mad **** among the magicians, whoever is with a devil will become an enchanter himself', and I hope two hundred years have passed , it's all stopped."

   "I hate this, I want a good trip."

   "I know." She said dryly. "Do you regret not taking Josephine out?"

   He reached out to touch the floating cross.

   "Don't touch it," Georgiana warned.

"why?"

  Georgianna hesitated how to explain it to him.

"I want to know the truth." He pointed to Georgiana's neck. "You tell me that your youth and beauty are maintained by the necklace around your neck. If you take it off, you will be old and ugly. It came off."

   "I don't want to mislead you."

   "Tell me what you saw?"

"Do you know the meaning of this word? Hilfe, I asked just now, it means 'help' in Dutch, and a man who was tortured said that to me." Georgiana said, suppressing the pain." But he didn't know he was dead."

   Bonaparte looked at her with a strange look.

   "I can't help him." Georgiana said sadly, "You better stay still in that fortress, even if it's a brick or a stone, his ghost will move with the object."

   "Then you are still carrying this thing." He pointed at the cross fiercely and cursed.

"I need to investigate, if I don't bring it back, how am I going to think of the Spanish Netherlands." She faced his rant without backing down "You asked if it was the Austrians, why are you so skeptical? , is it because they just evacuated?"

   He did not answer.

   "I used to think that science would destroy superstitions, but no," she said bitterly. "Instead, it will create new superstitions and cover up the truth."

   "Why do you think that?" he asked.

   "Have you heard of the Salem incident?" Georgiana asked defiantly, "You think it's ergot fungus?"

   He did not answer again.

   Yes, it was impossible to know what ergot bacteria were in the 18th century because that was after the discovery of cytology.

   But this doctrine has been abused, and a person with ergot poisoning cannot testify eloquently in court.

   There is no Inquisition in Salem.

Georgiana thought of the purger mercenaries, and the group she had met in Rouen, one of them had been caught and probably tortured, but if the sorcerer fell to the purgers In hand, the end is the same.

   "The rye is not stored well, and if you eat it, you will get sick." Georgiana said after a while. "It looks like a crazy dance. These are dried by ergot fungus."

   "There is a **** of madness in people who know magic, and I understand now what I mean," said Bonaparte with a smile, then turned and left.

   "Me too." She said looking at his back.

The bell tower consisting of 46 bells on the Castle Square in the center of the city is still ringing. The sound can be heard even outside the city, but it is not as loud and pleasant as when entering the city just now. It looks long and quiet. With the breeze, outside the window. There are faint ripples on the mirror-like surface of the Lake of Love.

   The Witch Hunt: Salem 1692

  

  

   (end of this chapter)