“It's hard to explain, but        
apparently the Journal entry references
this trial that was supposed to have   
occurred during the other Witch Trials.
     “I wrote an essay in high school  
about them and also did a lot of       
research, but this is something that   
I'd never heard of before.”            
     “What was the trial for?” I asked.
     “Apparently, a secret trial was   
conducted to convict a cat of          
witchcraft, because a half-dozen       
witnesses were willing to testify that 
the cat could talk. The cat was either 
unwilling to talk or unable to talk,   
and she was convicted and hanged.      
     “Apparently, at the last minute,  
the cat began to beg for her life, but 
they hung her anyway, and while she was
choking to death, they set her on fire.
*      “How can people be so fucking       
cruel?”                                
     “There are a lot of people out    
there like me hon, but why do you keep 
saying apparently?”                    
     “Because like the German textbook,
I wasn't actually able to read the     
Journal itself. It's in French, which  
was odd, because the Librarian who     
showed me where the Journals were, also
told me that the guy who donated them, 
didn't speak a word of it. I had to    
translate it all with the same site.   
     “It also took a while, because I  
had to figure out the handwriting      
first, but the Librarian helped me out 
by making huge copies of the two pages 
that mentioned the talking cat. She    
even highlighted the French phrase for 
talking cat.                           



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