YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

It was thus young Goodman Brown leaving his beloved Faith (my wife) to meet a trusted Village Elder in the woods for a sacred meeting..................and Brown enters the woods and all manner of spiritual menagerie pop up before his eyes taking form out of the branches and the roots of trees...............but no it is OK, and Brown proceeds deeper into the forest................when all at once there appears his wise, trusted Elder at the base of a huge tree marking a fork in the path...................he is carrying a great staff, and nothing is said as he points the way further into the woods............

At some point they meet up with others from the village that he recognizes, and they all proceed to a gathering in a clearing....................Brown stands there and, lo and behold, there begins a great fire, and a wicked chant and dance starts amongst the villagers who are in this clearing, his trusted Elder dons a white robe and a matching odd white hat shaped like a cone..............his staff transforms into a huge snake in his hand and he directs the Puritan villagers into all manner of acts of inequity in the midst of the clearing in the fiorest

Brown runs from the gathering terrified and losing his way, calling all the while for his Faith ........................

and later he wakes up in Faith's arms sobbing and shaken so from the night terror, that he never is the same again in life...............When he sees the people from the village that were in his dream he shrinks in a kind of madness................From that day forward young Goodman Brown becomes old Goodman Brown as he carries on his duties in life as half the man he was in his youth, and as he ages so, prematurely..................