say what? There was a trace of confusion on the face of the landlady. She didn't understand why the other party reacted so suddenly. The legend of the witch can be traced back hundreds of years. Many old people in the town have listened to their grandparents' stories about the witch in the town since they were children. They heard what their grandparents told them, and they may have polished it a bit while retelling it. This is how many witch stories and legends in the town have been passed down orally to this day.
No, I am referring to the previous sentence, what is the name of this town? Wu Ming confirmed repeatedly with a look of disbelief, fearing that he had just heard wrongly: Melas Town? Are you sure this town is called Melas?
The landlady nodded innocently: Yes, is there anything wrong with this name?
Wu Ming did not reply, and his expression became gloomy at a speed visible to the naked eye. Melas Town is the name of this remote town somewhere in South Wales. Due to its remote location, it is rarely known, and many times it is even on the map. He would not mark the location of this town, but in fact he knew that this town existed.
Because of Nina.
He still remembered the little girl with long golden chestnut hair. Her eyes were bright and she talked freely about her ideals when she grew up. She wanted to take her mother out of this town, wanted to see the outside world, and wanted to eat what her father told her. However, this little girl who should have lived a carefree childhood was abused, abused and bullied by the townspeople as a witch at a young age.
In order to deal with the incident caused by the Crimson Queen, Wu Ming only had time to spread a cognitive modification when the townspeople attacked Nina, temporarily helping her avoid the abuse of the townspeople before being teleported back to Yandu. . But that cognitive modification could not fundamentally solve Nina's problem, so after solving the incident, he searched for this town several times in private, trying to send it back through the coordinates recorded by the auxiliary device, but the strange thing was
The teleportation to Melas Town has never been successful.
Now it seems that Wu Ming has begun to wonder whether the reason why he has been unable to find Melas Town is because the witch living here deliberately interfered in the dark.
What's wrong? The old hunter obviously noticed something was wrong with Wu Ming's expression, and asked with concern: Brother, have you thought of anything?
It's nothing, it's just some private matters here. Wu Ming shook his head, and finally put down the messy thoughts in his heart. He looked at the landlady with an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry to interrupt the topic. Please continue with the legend of the witch. The origin of the legend of the witch is the earliest." Can it go back hundreds of years? But aren’t these stories and legends passed down orally? How can we be sure that the date is correct?
Um. In fact, they are just stories and legends, but when the old people in the town tell these stories to the children, they will tell them that these are real things that happened in the town a long time ago. In order to record these things, the boss lady did not pay attention and nodded. He continued, according to the thinking of the people in the town, the earliest story happened hundreds of years ago, so we can only assume that it happened hundreds of years ago.
At this time, the proprietress rolled her eyes, apparently not interested in this kind of witch legend at all.
Otto was about to fall asleep while listening. He yawned heavily and then whispered to the side: Why does it sound like listening to someone telling a ghost story? The storyteller said that it was a real thing that happened. Same thing
That's what I mean. The proprietress unexpectedly glanced at Otto, who was a little sleepy. She seemed to think that his summary was quite insightful. However, although there were many stories about witches in the town, many of them were the same routine. That's what happened in the town. There is a hidden evil witch who brings disaster and misfortune to the town. In order to prevent the tragedy from spreading, the townspeople stood up and overcame many hardships and suspicions, and finally defeated the witch.
Although most of them are boring, there are still some interesting stories in the legend about witches.
More interesting story? Wu Ming and Alex's eyes lit up, and they exchanged glances involuntarily: After chatting for so long, the real person is finally here, and then the former immediately asked: Start talking.
In fact, not only Wu Ming and Alex cheered up, Siegfried also silently turned his attention while eating breakfast.
Moving on to the story told by the landlady, even Otto swallowed back half of his yawn and braced himself to wait for her to continue.
Seeing how excited everyone was, the landlady smiled and said, "Let's tell you the first story first. This is the story about the origin of the witch. It is also the earliest witch legend recognized in the town."
The witch was already dying when she escaped here. Although the kind-hearted townspeople lived in poverty, they still received her with the greatest enthusiasm and treated her. Each family contributed some food and shelter so that she could live in the town. Come down. The witch, who was treated tenderly by the townspeople during her recovery period, thought that she would be endlessly hunted and persecuted if she returned to the outside world, so she decided to stay in this town and use magic and witchcraft to make the town The residents become happy, which can be regarded as repaying their kindness for saving him.
After making up her mind, the witch used her magic to secretly help these townspeople. She used magic to make it easier for them to cultivate farmland and make the crops grow more pleasantly. She also used witchcraft to drive away wild beasts so that incoming robbers could not find the town. He even brewed some herbs and magic potions to help the sick townspeople in the town treat their diseases.
The landlady paused for a moment when she said this, and Wu Ming knew that the turning point of the story was coming, and the fact was exactly as he expected. Then he heard the landlady continue: But miracles and magic are not free, in this world The total amount of happiness and misfortune is always conserved. No one can gain happiness without any effort. The witch does cast magic out of good intentions and hopes to bring happiness to the townspeople, but
But these happiness come at a price. Without waiting for her to finish her words, Wu Ming roughly guessed the direction of the story: So even if the witch cast magic with good intentions, the counter-effect of the magic still brought misfortune to the town?
The landlady nodded, with some complicated emotions flashing in her eyes, including regret, emotion, and sadness: Well, happiness created with magic will lead to greater misfortune. Unusual unfortunate events gradually appeared in the town. Children who are cured by the witch with magic potion will be killed by wild beasts because they chase rabbits into the mountains and forests. The originally abundant crops will be destroyed by fire or drought. In the story, this is the price of using magic to obtain happiness.
Later, people in the town suspected that the witch had caused these disasters. They arrested the witch and then asked church pastors from big cities outside to identify the witch. In the end, the witch who caused the disaster did not make any excuse for her actions and was willing to do so. Accepting his fate, the angry and frightened townspeople pushed him to the stake and burned him alive. ..
After burning the witch to death, just like the witch's revenge, the bandits and robbers quickly ransacked the town at that time, almost burning the town to the ground. Those who were lucky enough to survive the looting rebuilt the town, but No one thought that the flames did not purify the witch's curse and revenge. In the words of the town people, the witch's power is still causing trouble in this town to this day.
The landlady let out a sigh of relief: The story about the original witch ends here.
Alex was silent for a long time, and his thousands of words finally turned into a sigh: Even if he uses magic with good intentions in the hope of helping others, will it still lead to misfortune in the end?
Then comes the second story. The landlady didn't answer the old hunter's emotion. Instead, she spoke unhurriedly, drawing everyone's attention back and then continued her story. The second story was many years after the original witch was burned to death, when the townspeople were lucky enough to survive the bonfire during the bandit attack. The town has been rebuilt and is surviving here tenaciously. The townspeople even raised funds to build a small church, but just like the first story said, the flames did not purify the witch's soul.
The witch with only her soul left wanders in this mountain forest, still refusing to sleep peacefully. The residents of the small town have the blessing of faith and will no longer
She was harmed by evil spirits driven by magic, and she lost her body. She could no longer use magic to bring disaster and misfortune to the residents of the town, so she chose other methods to spread misfortune and despair. Select those with the qualifications to become a witch. The townspeople and children, like the devil, use various means to tempt them to deviate from the guidance of their faith and accept the power of the witch to fall.
Otto frowned and couldn't help but make a mistake: So they fell, accepted the witch's power, and became stronger?
Boss lady:?
Wu Ming glanced at him lightly, a little speechless: Nonsense, who would fall if there is no benefit?
Boss lady:? ? ?
Seeing the sudden change in topic style, the old hunter couldn't help but cough lightly and reminded: Well, there are actually many ways to become stronger, so it's better not to fall for the sake of becoming stronger.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to become stronger. Anyway, if the witch wants to persuade people to fall, she has to offer some benefits, right? For example, being able to use magic, being able to eat meat every day, or even if it's not good enough, you have to give me a pot of oil, a bag of rice, etc., right? Otherwise, in that era, who would risk being tried for heresy and become a witch?
What this guy said seems to make sense.
Otto looked at it and his brows jumped wildly: Sending oil and rice is too much! Are you here to promote some financial products?
Anyway, that’s what it means, as long as you can understand it.
The boss lady watched the topic slip in a direction that was completely beyond her control. She was completely speechless. She waited quietly for them to finish the discussion before continuing. Returning to the topic, the original witch was just like what you said, little brother, using all kinds of temptations. Let the townspeople fall and accept the witch's power to become a new witch
The appearance of these witches is said to be the key to the town forming the tradition of witch trials and witch hunting.
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