1621. The new settlers had begun to plant in the fields south of Plymouth. The men kept coming back to tell about the strange way that the ground would tremble when the moon came up. One of the wives, a very curious young woman named Veronica, decided that she would check out the grounds at night after the men were asleep. She told her neighbor who thought that it was man's work to investigate such things. The curious veronica went out that night.
The next day, Veronica's husband went out looking for her as she had never returned that night. The next door neighbor told the husband what she was planning on doing the previous night. The man along with other men from the settlement went down to the planting site. There in the middle of the field was Veronica, standing still like a statue. Her husband ran up to her and screamed, "Veronica!" But Veronica never moved. As he approached her, he saw that her skin was as dry as an old ear of chucked corn. Her hands looked like twigs as they covered her face. As he painstakingly moved her hands away from her face, he noticed that her eyes had been removed and the blood running down from them was black as a moonless night. The other settlers pulled Veronica's limp body down with tree limbs. They were afraid to touch her.
& That was the beginning of the Witch hunts in that area. The men believed that the lady next door was the witch that had bewitched her. After trying and killing her, the men began to kill all the other women until only a few were left alive.
A month later, Indians appeared in the colony. They told the settlers how they had found this woman wandereing around in the fields frightened to death of the woods and animals. They took her in but could not speak her language. When they finally found an Indian who could speak her language, she told him that she had made a scarecrow to protect the field from crows. She was on her way back home but the fog was so deep that she got lost and could not find her way back home. e Indians produced the woman who ran to her husband crying and filled with gratitude to the Indians for returning her home safely. woman in the field was a scare crow! What is a scare crow?", asked the men. The Indians answered. It is something that is placed in the fields to run the crows away form the maize, your wife learned it from one of the traveling Indians who sold her the pottery. The men had killed the so-called witches for nothing. With so few women in the colonies, another profession began that day as well.