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The Witchfinder's Axe

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the idea that you want to cause a little damage down there
is quite sufficient to concentrate the mind wonderfully... :eek:
Open the pear, a little bit... It's like a game... She can feel pear within, she can feel opening... Open, close, open, close...

I know that she is innocent, and i don't need her nonsensical tales about witchcrafting, night flying... I want to play with her...
And because she is innocent damage will be little...
 
Open the pear, a little bit... It's like a game... She can feel pear within, she can feel opening... Open, close, open, close...

I know that she is innocent, and i don't need her nonsensical tales about witchcrafting, night flying... I want to play with her...
And because she is innocent damage will be little...

He BELIEVES in my innocence ... take note Wraggie, Pp and Tree ... this guy has class! :p
 
Nearly in a wink Barbaria catapults herself from the year 1961 in the Deep South (Ku Krux Klan), to the witch hunt in 1645. Just to get into trouble once again.
The thread took such a quick start, that I missed the beginning;). Once more a good story!
 
Nearly in a wink Barbaria catapults herself from the year 1961 in the Deep South (Ku Krux Klan), to the witch hunt in 1645. Just to get into trouble once again.
The thread took such a quick start, that I missed the beginning;). Once more a good story!

img4fed544ca98d0.jpg Yep, I get around :p Thanks for the nice comment Lox!
 
I know that she is innocent, and i don't need her nonsensical tales about witchcrafting, night flying... I want to play with her...
And because she is innocent damage will be little...

Well, this is a witchfinder who knows what he's found. Witches are few and far between and this isn't one.
But he understands he can't just stand up and say "This one's innocent! Let her go and be ashamed of yourself, you lecherous scum!"
He wouldn't be witchfinder for long anymore! He might be accused of being in league with the devil himself!
It's the people who want her to be a witch, regardless of what he's found her to be.
And he has to give them something.
'A little damage' is probably the minimum they'll require for their satisfaction.
Then maybe, just maybe, he can say, 'As you have found no marks I will need some time for a close inspection with the best methods of the art. No distractions. Do not distract me from my investigations for the night'.
A night alone with the 'witchfinder', who will see what there is to find, as he does his 'little damages', inflicting little deaths.
It's the last best hope! Next morning, he might just decree - This one is not a witch herself, she was only accursed by witch, and I have purified her of the curse! The true witch, or witches, probably a pair of witches, must still be found!

You don't believe this can happen?
I tell you it has happened! At least once!
 
Well, this is a witchfinder who knows what he's found. Witches are few and far between and this isn't one.
But he understands he can't just stand up and say "This one's innocent! Let her go and be ashamed of yourself, you lecherous scum!"
He wouldn't be witchfinder for long anymore! He might be accused of being in league with the devil himself!
It's the people who want her to be a witch, regardless of what he's found her to be.
And he has to give them something.
'A little damage' is probably the minimum they'll require for their satisfaction.
Then maybe, just maybe, he can say, 'As you have found no marks I will need some time for a close inspection with the best methods of the art. No distractions. Do not distract me from my investigations for the night'.
A night alone with the 'witchfinder', who will see what there is to find, as he does his 'little damages', inflicting little deaths.
It's the last best hope! Next morning, he might just decree - This one is not a witch herself, she was only accursed by witch, and I have purified her of the curse! The true witch, or witches, probably a pair of witches, must still be found!

You don't believe this can happen?
I tell you it has happened! At least once!

Malins seems sure there must be more witches lurking in this story. Perhaps this town has a witch infestation :rolleyes:
 
Great work Barb, that is a terrible instrument to confront, and to suffer!
No wonder you confessed.
The pear, or Pear of Anguish, really is a horrifying thing to use on anyone, man or woman. The relentless pressure, expanding, tearing inside. The helpless inability to stop it, except by confessing!

an old one by phlebas


Yes, quite an old one from me, as you see from the date and the number, all under 30. It was an early "commission", a man in Germany asked me to do a series with his girl as the subject. They were my first serious move into non crux related manips, and they are very relevant to the story here. Here are the rest.
 

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Malins seems sure there must be more witches lurking in this story. Perhaps this town has a witch infestation :rolleyes:

That's exactly what the witchfinder thinks too!:oops:

Well, this is a witchfinder who knows what he's found. Witches are few and far between and this isn't one.
But he understands he can't just stand up and say "This one's innocent! Let her go and be ashamed of yourself, you lecherous scum!"
He wouldn't be witchfinder for long anymore! He might be accused of being in league with the devil himself!
It's the people who want her to be a witch, regardless of what he's found her to be.
And he has to give them something.
'A little damage' is probably the minimum they'll require for their satisfaction.
Then maybe, just maybe, he can say, 'As you have found no marks I will need some time for a close inspection with the best methods of the art. No distractions. Do not distract me from my investigations for the night'.
A night alone with the 'witchfinder', who will see what there is to find, as he does his 'little damages', inflicting little deaths.
It's the last best hope! Next morning, he might just decree - This one is not a witch herself, she was only accursed by witch, and I have purified her of the curse! The true witch, or witches, probably a pair of witches, must still be found!

You don't believe this can happen?
I tell you it has happened! At least once!


Right on the nail, Malins!

But be careful! By such wise words, you may inadvertedly draw the attention of the witchfinder to yourself:
"She says the true witch must still be found! Why does she say that? Does she know more? I think I will have a talk to her! Prepare the interrogation room!"

Witches and heretics were guilty by suspicion, remember. Inquisition psychology. Either the suspect immediately confessed. He/she was sent on a dangerous pilgrimage to repent, and was branded the rest of his/her life with the stigm of a heretic. If they did not confess, they were tortured until they did, and delivered to civil justice, that condemned them to death.

Inquisition always won.
 
1. THE TUMBRIL

The tumbril lurches, groans and creaks as it negotiates the unevenly paved cobblestone lane on its crude wooden axles. I struggle to keep my balance, steadying myself as best I can against the front-side railing. An escort of grim-faced helmeted men, with long pikes in hand and flaming red sashes drawn over their tunics, flank the tumbril on either side. A man with a drum leads the procession, rapping out a steady rattling beat.

Along the way streams of people emerge from doorways, shops, side streets and alleys to join the gathering boisterous throng that trails the slowly moving cart and its armed escort, while others lean out of the open upper-story windows of overhanging, half-timbered houses. Everyone wants to take a gander at the condemned, bare-chested young woman on her way to the town market square for public execution.

They stare scornfully, but also curiously, as I pass by … fascinated at the sight of my bare breasts swaying and jiggling with each lurch of the cart ... certainly a rarely seen and remarkable public spectacle for the prudish citizenry of our town. The men snigger, leer and make jokes at my expense; the women scowl and glare at their menfolk reproachfully.

I stand as tall and proud as I can and try to look straight ahead, clutching at the swaying tumbril railing with my rope-bound hands, the tattered remains of my clothing draped around and hanging down from my slender hips, long brown hair spread over my bare shoulders and down my back, it's reddish highlights catching the morning sun.

It's the summer of 1645, and the Witch Finder General has just come to town ... in this, the second year of his fateful quest to rid the kingdom once and for all of the evils of witchery and the works of the devil. Proclamations had been posted early yesterday morning, inviting good citizens to report any suspicions they might have of witchcraft among neighbors, friends and acquaintances, even family.

I paid little heed to such foolishness. But I should have worried about the two old spinsters next door, who were known to spend their days spying on their neighbors.

They came for me in the middle of the night, carrying flaming torches, pounding loudly on the shop entrance door down on the ground floor.

Our man servant let them in. They brusquely pushed past him, and past my protesting father and mother on the stairway leading up to the family living quarters.

I stumbled out of bed in my night clothes, threw a shawl over my shoulders, burst out of my room and ran straight into the arms of a burly man, who immediately grabbed me by the arms, pinning them behind my back and spinning me around.

"Are you Barbara Moore?" growled a second man in a red skull cap and long flowing ecclesiastical gown. A large medallion, on his chest, flashed in the shimmering torch light.

I nodded.

"Then come with us!"

TO BE CONTINUED

You are so productive B! KKK story is still 'hot', then you start producing a new story, impressive! (+Thanks!)

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speaking of witch, its Burns Nicht on Monday,
time to remember what Tam o'Shanter keeked at

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There was ae winsome wench and waulie,
That night enlisted in the core,
Lang after ken'd on Carrick shore;
(For mony a beast to dead she shot,
And perish'd mony a bonie boat,
And shook baith meikle corn and bear,
And kept the country-side in fear.)
Her cutty-sark, o' Paisley harn
That while a lassie she had worn,
In longitude tho' sorely scanty,
It was her best, and she was vauntie,-
Ah! little ken'd thy reverend grannie,
That sark she coft for he wee Nannie,
Wi' twa pund Scots ('twas a' her riches),
Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches!

But here my Muse her wing maun cour;
Sic flights are far beyond her pow'r;
To sing how Nannie lap and flang,
(A souple jade she was, and strang),
And how Tam stood, like ane bewitch'd,
And thought his very een enrich'd;
Even Satan glowr'd, and fidg'd fu' fain,
And hotch'd and blew wi' might and main;
Till first ae caper, syne anither,
Tam tint his reason a' thegither,
And roars out, "Weel done, Cutty-sark!"
And in an instant all was dark:
And scarcely had he Maggie rallied,
When out the hellish legion sallied...

:devil: :devil: :devil:
 
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