~Subject: Repost:Tales of the Witchfinder Part 5B ~From: an481236@anon.penet.fi (Saint Elmo) ~Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 04:49:07 UTC ~Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories The judges stepped unheeding through June’s blood which was now pooling under each toe, and walked around the poor girl, like lions circling for the kill. A brass dildo for June Now the torturers skill became evident. A piercing scream came from June’s lips. She gasped in agony. The Torturer had brought her back to full awareness with the insertion of a long brass dildo, thrusting it deep into her vagina. The dildo had dozens of thin slits along it’s length, and now, when the torturer began to twist the ring in the end, small needles began to emerge from the brass housing and thrust outward against the fleshy sensitive walls of the poor girl’s vaginal canal. She felt a flower of agony bloom in her belly, and grow as he continued to twist the ring, driving the needles deep into her flesh. Satisfied that it was firmly imbedded in her flesh, he tied a thin cord to the ring, and nodded to the Witchfinder. The torturer tugged the cord gently, and was rewarded with a cry of anguish and saw her hips thrust violently up and down in a reflexive movement of agony. “Yes,” he thought,” the dildo will do nicely.” The Witchfinder bent over her face, and asked loudly for the names of her coven. She did her confession in short gasps of agony, as the torturer rotated the wheel until she was at a convenient height, holding the rope leading from the dildo in her crotch loosely in his hand. Each time she paused, or hesitated in answering the Witchfinder’s questions, the torturer would pull slightly on the cord that was attached to the dildo. The slightest movement of the rope was enough to make her scream with agony. Occasionally he would twitch the rope just to enjoy her reaction. The movement would plunge the needles a fraction deeper, and her hips would thrust up and back in convulsive reaction to the new pain. Poised this way, in a dizzy haze of agony, June named ten of her classmates, as fellow witches, hardly stopping to breath as she confessed over and over again to everything the Witchfinder suggested. In an excess of sexual lust, he turned the wheel so that her face was at the level of his hips, and began to open his trousers, but the Witchfinder stopped him. “Not yet”, he ordered, “She must still give us one more.” He leaned over the nude body of the helpless woman, and twitched the cord quickly three times. The dildo slid a half inch out of her body as he did so. With his hand he twisted it and forced it roughly back inside her, gouging new paths of agony as he further mutilated her delicate tissues. Blood was now coursing down her thighs freely. She named her cousin Susan, in a desperate effort to make him stop. He knew she would. No woman could endure such agony as the torturer inflicted. With the confession completed, the Witchfinder handed the list to the warden and ordered all upon it to be brought before him for examination as to witchcraft. He turned to the torturer, and nodded at the writhing nude woman. “Give her to Milo to keep in the cells, until we have the rest of them in our power.” The torturer smiled and bowed, as the Witchfinder and the judges departed, leaving June and he alone. He reached down between her thighs, and twisted the ring on the brass dildo so that the needles retracted. She felt the pain diminish. He drew it forth, the brass now covered with her blood, and held it to her lips. “Kiss it”, he urged, and the tortured woman put her soft lips to the warm metal and did so, as he watched, their faces inches apart.. Now the torturer was drooling, his face a mask of lust. He grasped the poor girl’s firm youthful breast and with a guttural cry leaned forward and bit savagely at the tip of her nipple, loosing a stream of blood from her right nipple. She began screaming again, and her desperate screams echoed again and again through out the dungeon, until finally her voice became a croaking rasping unintelligible blur, and her face softened into a relaxed semiconsciousness. “You are a witch, and now you are doomed to die in fire, “ the torturer gloated, and turned away. As June lay quietly, her pain receding to a dull throb, the torturer heated an iron bar in the coals. He withdrew it finally, now white hot and sparkling, and approached the twitching, uncomprehending, June, who now was slowly rolling her head from side to side in agony. She dimly felt the sticky hot blood coursing down her side from her bitten breast, and the fading pain lying deep in her belly from the effects of the dildo he had buried deep inside her little body and used so effectively during her questioning. He studied her for a moment, his cock rigid as steel within his leather trousers, then slowly, carefully, he brought the smoking iron hard against her wounded breast, ignoring her frantic jerking and screams of agony, as he seared the cruel bite wound he had inflicted. June fainted. The abuse of June They gathered about the slight figure, and washed her clean of blood, and discussed the next use to which she was to be put, which was the sexual gratification of the cruel men who had watched her confess. Too bad they would only have one of those perfectly made breasts intact, but the torturer had lost control for a few moments. Experience had taught him that a young woman’s breasts were very tender, precious, and above all, the nipples themselves were so very sensitive to the slightest pain that none had ever failed to confess after his tooth work was finished. Earls agreement had included a payment of gold to the torturer, and almost as an afterthought he had included a request to “Interview” June by himself after her confession, which the torturer had interpreted correctly as a request to rape the victim. Now, out from his hidden place in the corner, he was there as part of that bargain to witness June’s questioning, and “confession”. Earl had promised himself that he would flay that perfect little body, and give the skin to her mother, as a jest. Bathed, and clean, and now fully conscious, June was unbound from the wheel and her made to stand, as her wrists were bound behind her. Her slim body stood helpless as a heavy pole was fastened to her ankles, holding her feet spread far apart. A short chain was now passed around her neck and attached to the center of the pole, so that she was forced to stand bent over at the waist, and quite unable to straighten up. Now the torturer tied her bound wrists to a rope that ran over a wooden beam in the ceiling, and pulled it taut, straining Junes arms high behind her, and straining them in their sockets. Pain flooded her once more as she began to sob helplessly. Bound and held thus, with her love pouch peeking out from her parted thighs, she was now prepared for her rape by the men. Earl watched from the shadows. There she stood, bent over and helplessly awaiting her fate, her great mass of blond hair falling forward, covering her face, her chest with those beautiful bitten dangling breasts once more leaking drops of blood, heaved with terror. The torturer swung aside his robe, revealing a great stiff cock, with huge balls swinging below. The judges were taken aback. A cock that size was impossible to get into a woman as small as June, they thought, realizing that the brass dildo had probably inflicted heavy damage to the delicate tissues of her vaginal tunnel. The torturer grinned evilly, and stared down at the bound girl. This was not the first time he would split female flesh with his cock. He applied some grease to the tip of his cock, and began. “God, what a beauty”, he thought, as his cock, touching her warm flesh, now hardened imperceptibly into a still more rigid bar. Moving behind her, he crouched, knees bent, with his hands gripping the fleshy globes of her firm buttocks. His thumbs kneaded her flesh, spreading them wide open, exposing her anus and vagina, as June, still ignorant of his intentions, continued to sob and beg for mercy. He moved into her, forcing into her soft, bleeding slit, eliciting a small cry of despair from the victim, who now realized at last , her oncoming rape. Unable to control his lust any longer he worked the great plum sized head of his now iron hard cock further between the soft lips of her the satin smooth velvety vagina, feeling the warm blood from her torn flesh then continued to work against the small slit. Suddenly, as he built up his lust to a maximum he roughly thrust the head in, pressing deep into the writhing little girl with a rough irresistible thrust of his hips. The men watched breathlessly as he made a few preliminary movements then gave another hard, sharp thrust that buried him completely inside the little woman’s belly, right to his balls, the bleeding of her sliced vaginal walls lubricating his deadly thrust. June felt the painful invasion bursting into her very womb, tearing soft tissue deep inside her, and freeing a new flow of bright red blood, which moments later he felt as a hot spurt down his straining thighs. He paused to savor the feeling in his cock, then began to thrust deeply in and out, in the age old manner of men with women, ravishing her cruelly. She had screamed only once, as he entered the tight orifice, then, her arms straining, stood writhing silently, her buttocks poised high and defenseless as he thrust deeper and deeper into her. Not a virgin since the Whipmaster’s rape, but now hurt deep inside her belly, June blood continued to froth from her, coating the monstrous cock with her blood as it dripped from her undefended slit, and coursed down her tensed legs. He pumped his iron hard cock as deep as he could into her youthful writhing body until he finally came, shooting long pulses of semen into her helpless body. He slowly withdrew from the helpless girls bloody body. “You little bitch,” he wheezed, ”You will feel many cocks in your belly before you die.” She turned her beautiful face to the side, and gazed uncomprehendingly through her skein of tangled hair up at him with wide blue eyes. Her lips moved. “Please master, let me go. I have done everything you asked, and more,” she gasped in a strained pain filled voice. Purification rituals upon June Now it was the judges turn. Novices to rape, they circled nervously around the bound, bleeding nude form of the helpless girl, each waiting for the other to begin. Finally the short thick set man ran his hands over the firm flesh of the small girl, as if to reassure himself that this beautiful creature was really his to do with as he pleased. He reached forward and grasped her tortured breast flesh. June continued to beg, and plead with the men as they crowded around her, realizing that her only hope of avoiding a gang rape was to plead for mercy convincingly. The torturer slapped her across the mouth. “Cease your mewling, you witch. Confession is all we wish to hear from you !.” June fell silent as a trickle of blood now slipped from the corner of her bruised mouth, and her lips began to swell. The torturer turned to the excited judges. “Be assured,” he spoke, “ Only by spurting Christian semen inside the witch can one drive out Satan from the witches body. The more semen she has inside her body, the less attraction Satan has for her.” “But master, what if she becomes pregnant?” “All the better,” the Witchfinder purred, “ The devil cannot access a pregnant woman, and you will have saved her soul” As he watched the effect of this declaration, he glanced down again at June. Perhaps he should fuck her again, he thought, she was a magnificently beautiful young girl, just at the beginning of womanhood, and it would be a pity to destroy that body before he had fully enjoyed it. His drained cock still was limp. But soon, he knew it would be ready again to spear into her soft folds. She must be filled with Christian semen. It was with only a small wrestle with their consciences, and then announcing to the room that this was only to help the poor girl escape Satan’s clutches, and with a few guilty glances at each other, each judge in turn mounted the helpless terrified, girl, removing their trousers only, and then thrusting full length into her now slippery vagina. Gripping a swollen, bleeding breast, and holding her tightly around her tiny waist, each judge in turn orgasmed with enthusiasm into June’s youthful writhing little body. Once begun, it took no other encouragement to keep their cocks rigid, and the first of many gang rapes was then performed on June Wilson. Each judge rose from the vulnerable girl as he finished, and washed away the blood covering their now limp cocks and bloody hands, then dressed and left the room, thrilled, yet excited as never before with their opportunity. Earl’s revenge Finally only the hidden farmer, and the torturer were left with June, and as they gazed down at her, the torturer bent over the motionless bound form. He released the rope which held her wrists raised high behind her, untied her wrists and released her ankles. June rolled onto her back, and the torturer shoved a heavy leather roll under her body, lifting her hips high. He produced a razor sharp knife, and shaved away the sparse pubic hairs from the unresisting half conscious June’s crotch, fully exposing the swollen lips of her battered and bleeding little slit. The torturer carried her back to her cell, where he dropped her roughly onto the pile of straw, rolled her onto her back, and kicked her thighs apart roughly. He turned to Earl who had followed them to the cell. “Take her now,” he ordered. Earl quickly opened his trousers, and spreading Junes slim white legs even further apart he unhesitatingly drove his great cock deep into her bleeding, slippery vagina. It was more than revenge, it was a wild eroticisism that had overwhelmed him as he had watched the beautiful little woman being tortured In a few moments he also had come inside her belly, mixing his sperm with that of the others, as he grunted out his passion. He rose slowly, and spoke to the watching torturer, who had observed the rape with amusement. “Like fucking a dead woman..” “She is,” he rejoined, ”Very soon” “Call me when you do the skinning,” he ordered. The torturer nodded, and smiled to himself. June lay motionless in shock, her young strong body strained to it’s limits, after five rapes, and horrible tortures, yet she still slowly regained strength as she slept, even though her doom was sealed. That night, the farmer slept deeply, and dreamed of the next weeks when he would again be allowed to “visit” June in her cell. The next time, she would be awake, and able to feel his cock, and know that his revenge for the blow on the head, would be her death by torture. June, he knew, would almost certainly die. Marie Marie was Leslie’s youngest daughter, and some said the most beautiful of the three women. She was a lithe, slim little girl, with an innocent, womanly appeal, a child’s body, with the characteristic of girl children of taut belly, and backward jut of hips. Marie was a little girl, with a woman’s appeal, and child’s body, with the characteristic of girl children of taut belly, and backward jut of hips. Her delicate features and wide full lips emphasized her large blue eyes, and long silky lashes, younger copies of her mothers strikingly beautiful features. Milo knew everyone would be busy for a few hours, so he eyed the frightened little woman with interest. Milo slipped the rope around the small neck, and tightened it until it was snug. He held the free end, and moved to face the terrified little girl. “Take off your blouse,” he ordered. She hesitated, and he yanked gently on the rope, “Take off all of your clothing, or I will remove them from your corpse,” and he pulled the rope tight. Marie choked, and her hands flew up to loosen the tight rope, then slipped down, and opened the front of her blouse to his gaze. Reluctantly, she dropped the blouse to the floor, and continued slowly undressing, until she stood nude except her thin panties, her arms folded across her breasts, and her head bowed. “Those too,” he ordered the little girl as he pointed at her last remaining clothing, and slowly she slipped them down, and stepped out of them, tears of shame welling from her squeezed shut eyes. She did not resist when Milo reached for her, and with only a small struggle, tied her wrists together behind her back. Then running the rope upward, he bound her elbows together , forcing her high, full little breasts with those suckable pert little nipples outward to the maximum degree. It was just for amusement, but he lowered his head for a few moments, and mouthed the cool firm flesh, and rolled each nipple inside his mouth. He felt his cock stiffen another degree. He yanked a tight loop of the thin rope around her small waist, nearly burying it in her flesh, then ran the free end down between her legs. He held her firmly, and carefully spread apart the pink lips between her legs, and slid the rope gently between them, then yanking hard, buried the rope deep into her cleft, jerking it painfully upward through her crotch, between her now twitching buttocks, and passing the end through her bound wrists. With hardly a pause, he quickly ran the rope back again to her front, and tied it tightly to the waist rope in the front. Marie could not stand the pain in her belly, and moaning through clenched teeth, danced a slow writhe moving from foot to foot as tiny trickles of blood began to slide from her now bleeding vaginal lips and slip down her thighs spattering droplets onto the floor. She jerked her hips to and fro writhing, helpless and in agony as Milo pulled sharply on the rope end, sending bolts of pain upward into her belly. She fainted at last, sliding to the floor. Frightened that he had hurt her too badly, Milo quickly removed the ropes, from her lax and unresisting body and carried her to her cot, where he laid her down face up. Calming himself, he stared at the youthful nude figure. She was breathing normally now. Encouraged, Milo stripped himself naked. He would not let her go to her testing before he had fucked her, he decided. Marie’s eyes widened in fear as she awakened and stared up at the huge man. He stopped inches away from her prone body, towering over her trembling body. His great size made her slim little body tremble, and she felt her mouth go dry in fear. She stared as if hypnotized at the long thick cock jutting out over her from between his mighty thighs. A small woman, stripped naked she looked even smaller. She would have barely came to his armpit if she were standing. Now in no hurry, he knelt onto the cot, holding her down with his weight, crushing her. He spread her thighs far apart, then holding them down with his legs, he sat upright, his cock lying along the tiny flat belly, and played for a few moments with her young firm breasts, pulling her nipples painfully. Ignoring the shrill cries and desperate pleadings from the helpless girl, his cock now throbbing with anticipation of the silky sheath between her legs, he leaned back, place the tip of his gargantuan cock to the entrance of her vagina, and pressed gently forward into her unprotected crotch. Slowly, but forcefully he penetrated her, then feeling the virginal resistance, roughly burst through her hymen in one hard thrust. After only a few confused moments of struggling with the huge man, Marie had felt a hot flow into her belly, as he ejaculated a copious amount of semen into her, filling her vagina and overflowing down her crotch to the mattress, soaking it. She thought it was over. That he had finished the squeezing of her breasts, the crushing rib cracking embrace and his heavy hips slamming the fiery rock hard organ deep into her body, and that her ordeal was at an end. But then he had rolled her, dazed and limp, with her wounded crotch afire and in shock, onto her stomach, and then with his hands, forced her knees apart. With no preliminaries, he had thrust his still hard, wet, slippery cock deep into her anus, popping through the tight ring of muscle, and quickly overcoming her desperate struggles, and ignoring her screams of pain and outrage, completed her degradation for that night. Only sixteen, Marie had been a virgin until that night, and all she knew of sexual activities had come from the whispered giggling stories told among her girlfriends, and her own observations of the animals on the farm. She had not known that a man ejaculated, nor just how it was all accomplished, but she knew that this man had hurt her terribly, and that the sexual act had made her ill. And so it transpired that on the very morning the Witchfinder had June brought forth and arraigned for the questioning, Marie, her younger sister was kneeling in front of the restored Milo. Milo felt the first quick thrill of a warm tongue on the tip of his swollen cock, and knew the little golden haired beauty was going to be a good student. As Marie slipped the great purplish head of Milo’s cock into the warm recesses of her mouth, June was walking stiffly and painfully behind the Ropemaster into the room where her mother had undergone a brutal rape and torture only a few hours earlier at the hands of the Whipmaster. Marie’s testing Marie shrank back as he reached for her, cringing as he gripped her wrist with his huge hand. “Ah,” he smiled down at her,” you have not forgotten me” “Please, please master, do not hurt me again, I have done nothing” “What !,” he roared, “You have practiced witchcraft, and the Witchfinder has found your devil spot. You must be confessed, cleansed, or you will surely be burned” This test, she imagined, was what had occurred yesterday when the Witchfinders men had stripped her naked, and then the Witchfinder had tortured her with his needle. She had been blindfolded, and left standing with wrists and ankles tied far apart in a spread eagle position. A gag had been tied tightly over her mouth. In a few moments she had heard the voices of several men, as they entered the room, and then felt the cool air on her body as her clothing was cut away from her slim beautiful body. Involuntarily she had flinched when she felt warm hands begin stroking her flat stomach and caressing her youthfully firm breasts. Then she felt the fingers move downward and she twisted in fear as she felt them thrusting deep into the most intimate recesses of her body. The touching ceased then, and the men fell silent as the Witchfinder opened a leather case and drawn out the long thin needle that he used to probe into the skin searching for those imperfections that he would use to show the judges that she was a witch.. First, he would demonstrate that she felt pain when he probed into her body, then when he desired, he would touch the needle to a mole, scar, or even a nipple, and slightly twist the needle, and it would collapse into itself. The illusion was perfect. The needle would appear to sink deep into the flesh, but no pain would be felt, nor blood flow when the needle collapsed into itself. The lack of blood and pain were presented to the judges then as the entry point of Satan, and the accused was a witch. The blindfold was to prevent any anticipation of the Witchfinder’s thrusts, so she had not seen the Witchfinder as he reached forward, and gently touched the sharp point to her muscled thigh, probed her skin gently, then with a firm thrust pushed the heavy needle deep into the quivering flesh. She had cried out pitifully through her tight gag as she felt the agony, filling the small room with mewling sounds of pain. The Witchfinder caressed her youthfully firm pear shaped breasts thoughtfully, then with a dozen quick movements pierced her breasts again and again with the thin needle, drawing a tiny dot of blood with each insertion. She writhed in obvious agony. Only after he had shown the judges her reaction to the needle in normal flesh did he reach down to the small mole on her body he had noted earlier, and press the point firmly against the tiny mole that lay high on her pubis, and make the needle appear to sink deep into her flesh. In moments, the judges had signed her death warrant, and instructed the Witchfinder to imprison her and force her to disclose the names of her fellow witches. Marie was taken down from her strained position and given a long white cloth with a hole in it’s center for her head to protrude through. The ends draped over her front and back, providing warmth, yet allowing access to any part of her youthful body. She was given water, cleaned, bathed and returned to her cell for the night, sore and humbled by her helplessness. Now this. The huge man was gripping her wrist again. “Oh please, please” she sobbed, “I am not a witch” “You must confess now, the names of your sister witches. “ “The judges have decreed that you shall receive torture , to open your heart to the truth, and to open your mouth to name them.” He grinned evilly at her as her eyes grew enormous with terror. “Oh No! Not that! I will die! Have I not endured enough already. Look at me, my breasts are swollen double size from the testing,” and the Ropemaster had to agree that she now bore two badly swollen breasts thrusting hard up against the white cloth. Instead of pity, he felt a stirring in his crotch. “Possibly, but the Torturer is very clever, and can deliver you up alive, only superficially marked, or if I tell him to, he can reduce you to a broken, helpless, female, in total agony, possibly killing you with his cruel machines.” “Please,” Marie begged,” I do not want to die. Help me. Wasn’t I a good girl when you did it to me?” She gasped in pain as he gripped her tender breast and squeezed. “Confess the names of twelve women who are your fellow witches, or whom you suspect of witchcraft, and you will not have to undergo further torture” Marie drew herself up to her full five foot height, and with as much dignity as she could muster, spoke out in a clear voice, “I cannot. It would be a sin before God, and I will die before dishonoring my family with such lies, or putting my soul into danger.” The Ropemaster stroked his chin with pleasure. This bitch would be his to do anything he wanted to after she was properly punished, he mused. And she would confess. They always did. Such spirit. “Very well,” he smiled, “If you behave bravely, and spread your legs willingly to me now, I will make sure the Whipmaster does not strike you fatally during the session. But you must understand, the whipping must occur.” “For shame,” she cried,” This is not right, the church would never condone such. You have no right to my body---,” The poor girl sobbed. “You filthy bitch, you speak to me of rights, you, a proven witch, a messenger and slave of Satan?. You will beg for my mercy, and my cock to favor soon!” and grasping her wrist, he dragged her struggling and protesting, to the torture chamber. The chamber of Pain The torturer eyed the girl that the Ropemaster was dragging behind him, and as they stopped in the center of the room, and the Ropemaster lifted the struggling form of Marie onto the dais, he leaned forward to stare directly into the eyes of the beautiful young woman who stood panting before him, her breath moving in and out in quick gasps, lifting her breasts temptingly. He moved closer, so that her full breasts were touching him. A narrow hipped young woman, a girl yet, with thick long blond hair flowing generously over her upper body, almost covering her back to her waist, Marie was a sexually exciting young woman, even in her present distress. The Torturer had no special feelings for his victims, he left that for the Ropemaster and the Witchfinder. This particular girl, however, he planned to fuck before he killed her. The Whipmaster studied the problem. He had promised Earl that he would see this one freed. She might not be in very good health when he did, he thought. He knew the Witchfinder and Ropemaster were always eager to have the “Witches” after the punishment, and he knew why. When the torturer was through with them, they were always absolute slaves to any command they gave them. The torturer smiled. This one looked very stubborn. He glanced down again at the defiant Marie, and asked the Ropemaster, “How many?”. “ Until she confesses twelve names,” the reply came. The girl jerked in his grip, whimpered and tears began to brim her blue eyes. She stared helplessly into his face, hoping to find a trace of mercy there. She did not. The torturer nodded, and waited as the Ropemaster raised the front of her cloth, pulled it over her head and lifted it away. Shamed. Marie crossed her hands in front of her petite tawny-sheened body but in moments they had gripped her wrists and she was fully exposed to their avid gazes. The two men tied her wrists behind her waist, and laid her face up onto the rack. Holding the slender ankles were heavy ropes which bit into her flesh and which ran over a drum, and were drawn tight with a wheel. Satisfied with the binding, the torturer closed a wooden piece over her neck, so that she could not rise up, or see her body. Marie now lay helpless, her body tensed, her long slim legs held widespread, naked and defenseless. Her slender body strained and tensed as the Torturer ran his hands over the lissome hips, the slim waist, and then reaching to cup her firm youthful breasts, he noticed that they were standing proudly up, hard swollen from the Witchfinder’s needle, even though she way prone on the rack. He reached out and palmed each breast thoughtfully for a few moments, his fingers digging deep, to get an idea of the sensitivity and firmness, ignoring her cries of pain and pleadings for mercy.” All women wanted to protect those titties, “ He thought. “Does she get any special treatment?”, he asked the Whipmaster, his trousers now bulging, indicating he was already in rut. The Whipmaster had his own plans, and would have his orgasm at her expense later. “No. Let her scream at what is happening, so that she might confess to end it. The master wants confessions, not corpses, so use care.” The Whipmaster moved closer to the girl and spoke softly into her ear,” This will be a good lesson for you, my little bitch. After the torturer is through with you, we will have to decide if you are to burn or not. You can save yourself now, by showing that you are not contaminated with the devil’s stubbornness. “First, you must confess. You must confess to having sex with Satan, and dancing with your coven at midnight. “Oh Please , Master, don’t let them hurt me. I will confess. I will do anything, but please let me go” “You must deny this lie that you were a virgin when you first came to the castle, and that you were raped.” “It is the truth, “ Marie cried hopelessly, “I had no man inside my body until the jailer” “I will ask you for this confession first, then you will speak the names of your coven. Twelve witches and yourself..” “No ! “, she cried, suddenly defiant, “ I am not a witch. I have never done those things, and I know no witches.. ”Her eyes widened as the Torturer once more slowly stroked her tightly drawn body with his hand, finally grasping her unprotected crotch and grinning. Her mind paralyzed with terror, her glance darting about the room in desperation, she saw nothing to save her. The Ropemaster picked up a pen and paper, and nodded to the Torturer. “We are ready.” Three young women whose exceptional beauty had attracted the Witchfinder were now brought into the torture chamber and arraigned against the stone wall. Their mouths were covered with gags, their wrists tied firmly to heavy iron loops in the wall, so that they stood with outstretched arms, robed only in their white cloths, and wide eyed with fear. They were to be witness to Marie’s ordeal. Marie could not know that these were women who were being held captive by the Witchfinder without being tested, nor even being accused. They were arrested only because they were the prettiest of the village women, and would be awarded to the Witchfinder’s men as they desired them, or sold into slavery in another town or parish. Indeed, he was counting on Marie to name them in her forced confession. The women had been told that if they did this thing, they would be released without further trial. That this was a true test of their Christian loyalty A lie, for the Witchfinder had selected them carefully based only on their beauty, and he had no intention of allowing them to leave the castle alive, lest they tell of what they had seen, and been made to do..