These people trust their fates- their fortunes- to the power of spells. Come. (they follow the growing crowd) Savanarola understands that what haunts a man's mind in the night, is what rules him. He trades in the fear of Hell.
Untie me! Untie me! Please, I've done nothing!
(grimly)... Here is a different kind of bonfire.
God will punish you!
(sickened)... What is her crime?
(shrugs, pretending it is obvious) She is a witch. People believe she has the power to cast them into Hell.
(nods) Fear.
Fear of damnation. And, the hope of a better life in the next world. (they observe as the stake is affixed to the ground and wood piled around the shrieking woman) That is what Savanarola promises- he trades in miracles. Show him to be wrong... the man will burn. Just like the witch.
If Angels can fall, from Heaven into Hell... then, so can we all. The Demon waits to devour us.
... Then we must go wrestle with the Demon.
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