EXCERPT FROM COURT PROCEEDINGS
Conducted by Roving Vice Overseer Alvaro Cardoza.
Prisoner: Constance Bow, of Pottershed (female, 28 years of age)
Offence: Heresy (possession of profane artefacts)
Verdict: Guilty
Punishment: Reformation (musical therapy)
Inventory of items confiscated from prisoner after capture in the Royal Conservatory. Submitted as evidence of witchcraft.
One (1) sharpened piece of bone (unknown origin, possibly human).
Three (3) rat tails, severed.
Five (5) pieces of braided hair, two singed as if by flame (unknown origins, human).
One (1) hand-mirror, broken (possibly innocuous).
One (1) waxwork doll, fashioned to look like the former Grand Inventor (burned on site—silvergraph of the offending item has been filed). Item had been stuck with several hairpins in the neck, head, and groin.
Six (6) pieces of whalebone, inscribed with lewd images.
One (1) pair of testicles, dried and strung together. Found tied around the prisoner’s neck. (When asked the origin, the prisoner stated that they were “your own”.)
GUILTY — Prisoner will be subject to experimental musical therapy to remove her wilful nature and attraction to black magic.