About a month ago, this kind of thing slowly started, and then it became more and more intense under the eyes of Kaiser The Great.
In fact, Kaiser The Great's attitude towards these people was that he never regarded them as human beings. His attitude towards the civilians was similar to the attitude of the Northland people towards the Derman. They were all treated as lambs to be slaughtered.
With the tacit consent of Emperor Keyes, the religious zealots of the Church began to arrest, interrogate, and execute the unarmed foreigners, women, and other people under the charge of arresting heretics and people who knew magic and would threaten the Empire. For a time, people were alarmed, but more and more people became religious zealots, and these people liked violence. At the same time, this also transferred the hatred of the bad news of Prune Harbor within the Empire.
Because of this, people could vent the violence in their hearts. For a time, there were people everywhere who reported, and some people even reported their own sisters.
Those who revered nature and loved peace only dared to communicate in secret, hugging together to protect themselves.
For a time, an activity called the Witch Hunt broke out within the entire Empire, starting from the capital city of Kelandil. The notice board in the city was filled with the bounty lists of all kinds of wanted people.
The armed forces of the Church began to walk the streets, going door to door to search for people. At this time, it seemed easy to frame a woman as a "witch" or a "witch". At the time, there was a reward for informants, and there was a guarantee that the informant would be strictly kept secret and exempted from punishment, so people could wantonly frame. Thus, in town and country, any woman who, by virtue of her beauty, was envied, or by her haughtiness, offended a suitor, was sent to her death by a letter of informant, and the informant had only to stand quietly by and watch the "spectacle," and thus carry out his sinister purpose.
At the same time, some people wanted to take revenge for personal grudges, and some people wanted to transfer their own crisis, so for a time, the trend of informants flourished, and many people panicked. The Witch Hunt even became a tool for the members of the Church to vent their desires. If they couldn't get the woman they fancied, they would be framed as "witches" and executed.
The accused woman was hauled into the magisterium of the Church, in which were suspended posts from the round ceiling, and on the floor stood a torture table, upon which were placed a screw-nail chain. The arrested woman was stripped naked and had all her body hair shaved off except for her hair (supposedly, this was to make it easier to find moles, spots, and so on that could confirm the presence of a demon). Then, she was tied to the torture platform with iron wire and the interrogators pricked her body with needles to look for traces of the demon.
There were all kinds of torture methods used on witches. Ironically, when these sanctimonious judges interrogated "witches," they often used witchcraft to "treat witches with witchcraft." In advance, they prayed for the success of the punishment, poured "holy water" into the "witches" so that "the demon could not bind their tongues during the torture," and attached bands to the naked "witches", thinking that this way, the demon could not open the shackles.
In just over a month's time, 291 'witchcraft' and 'heretics' were executed in the Holy City of Calandil. Among them, 268 were women, and only 26 were men. Among these 26, 11 were convicted because they were 'closely related to witches'.
These so-called witches, to put it bluntly, were just a group of ordinary women. The reason for the foolish and cruel "Witch Hunt" was initiated by the Church, and their real purpose was unknown. But the people below didn't care so much, they were happiest when they could do bad things.
For example, in June, a woman was accused of being a "witch." Under heavy torture, she confessed: "I have been an improper woman since I can't remember. I tortured 104 children to death, including three of my own. They were later dug up from their graves. Some of them were cooked and eaten. Some of them were made into ointments and other potions for witchcraft. Their leg bones were made into flutes. I tortured my wife and two children. I tortured my two husbands for many years, and finally they died. Finally, the witch was hung naked by the Church's fully armed knights and stabbed to death in front of the public with a spear.
Surrounding her was a crowd of civilians who were watching the show. They were completely numb. Perhaps they would only feel something if it was their family who was killed?
There was also a widow named Margherita, who was accused of being a witch because of the misgivings about her property. At first, she did not admit that she was a "witch" and had committed the crime of rebelling against God. But under the escalating torture, she had no choice but to make the following confession:
1. One night, ten years ago, a black-faced man appeared in her garden. This man flirted with her, and she satisfied his wishes. He was a cold-hearted man.
2. He persuaded her not to believe in the Seven Gods, which she did, but she immediately felt guilty.
3. This man said that his name was Blackbrowne, and he gave her a witchcraft broom and some ointment (for witchcraft).
4. She had flown in her garden at night for some time.
5. She had used the broom to fly to Georg's house, to Catarina's, and to Anna's.
6. Many other women, unknown to her, had come to her house, and they had eaten and drunk together.
Forced to confess, she had been tied to a post by the Church's Templars and burned alive in the square. There were too many innocent women like Margarita who were killed in the fire.
The execution of naked women was an opportunity for many men to "enjoy," to play with, and to humiliate them. They could do whatever they wanted with the poor women and thus satisfy their bestial desires. Even in the records of the "witch" executions, there were words such as "the woman was beautiful and plump."
In more remote places, there was also a practice of throwing women into rivers to identify "witches" or "witches." First, the accused woman was dragged onto a bridge and stripped naked in front of a crowd. Then the Church made her bend her knees and tied her hands and feet together for the public to see. Then a rose-colored basket was placed on the water, the woman was placed on her back, and the ropes were loosened until the poor woman was drowned.
In those days, the execution of "witches" was like a circus performance, and was often attended by thousands of people. Some of the men were even more enthusiastic, for the naked bodies and painful contortions of the "witches" gave them a deformed sensuality. In the square where the execution was to be carried out, or by the bridge where the river was to be thrown, there were stalls and peddlers. It was almost like a bazaar.
The "witches" locked in the dark and gloomy prison could not use "witchcraft" to escape, nor could they use "magic" to predict how they would be executed.
Witches who were arrested were usually burned, hanged, or beheaded.
The men used every means to exert their bestial desires on the women. As for whether these women were guilty or not, they didn't care at all.
It seemed that this year's Summer Festival would be bloodier than any of the others.
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