Today in Salem: A team of horses paws impatiently in the dust, waiting for another team to pass them and ride out of sight. Five accused witches are astride the waiting horses, escorted by guards and a constable who’s been ordered to arrest them.
They’re on their way to court, and so are the afflicted girls behind them. But one of the accused women had glanced at the girls, and they’d immediately begun to convulse. It torments them to be behind the witches. They must pass.
“Ho!” the constable had commanded, and steered his horse off the road. The guards and accused women have also moved aside, and now they turn away until the afflicted girls can pass them and ride out of sight.