Although today Little Brampton appears mired in medieval times they really do have some modern amenities though they are well hidden and are certainly not shared with the condemned witches held in the church cellar for the market day hangings. Electricity is available although all lines must be buried and no visible meters. Any lighting that can be seen from the street must candle or oil lamps. If the light itself cannot be seen from the street but the walls or ceiling must be ‘flickering’ lights that imitate a candle’s glow. There is also natural gas, again with lines and meters hidden, and cell coverage. Who would have thought the church towers were cell towers too?
Little Brampton also has running water and functioning sewers. In this picture the doors behind the crowd on your right are to public restrooms with fully functioning plumbing (heated and air-conditioned too) and tourism really picked up after public restrooms were installed and the hotels, pubs, and restaurants installed them both because of the comfort and sanitization that made the village smell better than the churches dungeon.
Of course the condemned witches were offered none of these amenities! So we resume our story. While there is a modern water and plumbing, the old well is still used to fill the water tower hidden in the church’s clock tower and as it has been since Medieval times and is filled by condemned witches pushing the pump wheel in shifts 24 hours a day before they are hanged…
Goddamn I have never gone a day without at least one shower. I’ve not seen daylight since brought here so I’ve no idea how long I have before I am hanged. I can’t judge by when I am fed either as the foul gruel seems to be served when the guards damn get around to it and half the time I can’t even bring myself to eating it so I am always hungry! (Editor note it is polenta made with lard processed from with-meat fat… what is Emma complaining about?)
They come for me and bring me to the room at the back of the church cellar where the water pump wheel is. There condemned witches are chained to the bar to push in circles for hours to fill the water tower.
I am familiar with it because you can be ‘trustee’ witch for £100 for an hour or for free if you agree to be whipped in the square 12 times for each hour. Before I married my husband I couldn’t afford to pay to whip the condemned cunts and took the dozen blows. It was humiliating, painful, and erotic at the same time.
The first time I was shamed to be stripped before the lecherous mob. I craved it the next time. But no matter the shame and pain I ground my cunt against the whipping post and came every time. After marrying the well-to-do Henry Grey he would have none of my public scourging but would often string me up to have me flogged in his den during parties or while negotiating business deals.
But I digress...
I always thought the condemned witches were whiny cunts as they cried how hard it was to turn the wheel powering the pump. Now that is my turn I learn it is not at all easy!
-Emma Grey
Well no shit!!!
The circular path is paved with shards of granite as it has been for centuries the rock is held in place by a mix of blood, piss, and crap that the condemned cunts leave as they work their eight hour shift. The mill wheel turns at a 1:100 ratio. Each gallon of water pushed up the 30 meters feels lifting more than 15 kg the same distance and each rotation lifts more than 15 gallons!
As mentioned since the village joined the Major Brampton water district this torture is totally unnecessary but since tourism is by far Little Brampton’s biggest money-maker (beating witch-meat 10-to-1!!!) traditions do die hard.
Fuck this is harder than I thought it could be! The granite shards feel like knives tearing at my feet. Whatever they gave me to drink has my bowels churning (Editor note: It is an all-natural laxative- there is no need to pollute the witch-meat with chemicals)
and I spray shit on the path I must walk and paint my bum and the back of my legs also! The second hour of my eight hour shift is the worst. In a break from tradition the ‘trustee’ is my damn sister Dorothy. When we were kids our parents splurged on tennis lessons. I was pretty good but Dorothy could not hit a beach ball held in front of her with a tennis racket! Where did she learn to use a whip?
-Emma Grey
It is Friday morning before market day. Little Brampton is expecting record crowds as for the first time two sisters are to be executed on the same market day for two separate crimes! Emma Grey is brought out to be placed in stocks…
Is today the day I wonder. I am scared but resigned to my fate. I am ‘dressed’ in burlap smock with my wrists locked in irons and am brought out to the square. They tell me to place my ankles in the stocks and I comply…
“No, you stupid bitch; put them in the outer cusps” one yells. “They’ll want to see your cunt, witch!”
“I’m not a witch” I protest.
“Tell it to Lucifer at the gates of hell” I am told as I am stripped. My neck and wrists are locked in an iron yoke and I am placed on a metal cart and taken to the gallows.
-Emma Grey
Emma is not to be hanged today but she is placed on the gallows with a fat wood gag stuffed in her mouth. Five witches are hanged before her…
Little Brampton is expecting a huge crowd tomorrow… Ingrid works all night to make witch-meat sausage bacon for breakfast for market day….
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