This one's set back in time . . . during the witch trials and such . . .
This dream, I'm not a part of, but I'm watching it as if I were a movie camera filming it . . . you know, sometimes up close, sometimes seeing it as a whole.
Anyway . . . there was a guy in a deep purple cloak kinda hanging, tied against this pole that was on the center of some strange burning platform. It had three places where someone could put their feet, and the rest was open to the fire below.
This platform was in the center of a circle of cloaked people. They were wearing beige colored cloaks. I could see the faces of none of these people. And all this is in a forest clearing.
Then a man wearing a dark brown robe type thing comes into the scene looking extremely offended by this and proceeds to slaughter everyone standing in the circle. He uses a knife/sword type thing (what's with the knife dreams lately?) and pretty much makes everyone unrecognizable . . . chopping them up and such.
Of course here, there's not much blood, and the bodies just kinda look like piles of pink, white, beige mush.
The guy then turns to the purple clad person on the platform, but there's no person anymore . . . just the cloak.
He looks around, a little bewildered, then he begins to look worried that he might have done something very bad indeed.
At this point, the purple cloaked person reappears in the cloak on the platform and laughs. He pulls the hood back and he's a relatively young looking middle aged man . . . he's got dark brown hair and a short beard. He spreads his arms out (lifting the sides of his cloak slightly) and the bodies reform into their original shapes.
The guy who had done all the "killing" then knew that he was definitely in trouble. He dropped the knife/sword and ran off into the forest.
The purple cloaked person sent people out to look for him, but none of them could find him, so the whole group went off toward the little village nearby (where the brown robed guy was from).
They get to the village and the brown robed guy's family is there . . . a mother and a daughter. They welcome the group in to the village and let them stay in the house.
The purple cloaked guy explains the situation to the family, and they accept it and say that they'll do all they can to help find the brown robed guy. It's night then, so there's not much they can do.
Some of the group sits outside doing various things. One of them sits off by herself, and the daughter of the family comes out to bring drinks to people. She brought a drink to the one sitting off on her own first, then finally to a pair that was closer to the front door of the house.
This pair was arguing about something, but they were also blowing up plastic inflatable things . . . like rings and fish. They were putting these things on some sort of black pole . . . and the female of the pair (there was a man and a woman arguing) got upset about something and shoved stuff on the pole a little too hard, popping one of the rings that was on it.
Then the next scene is the next day.
This is when the mother and daughter can help the group.
They go out to a special place behind they're house where they have some sort of wax map on the ground, and two large, up-side-down pointed pillar shaped, black candles hanging from ropes from the branch of a tree above it.
The mother and the daughter each take one of the candles and start it swinging . . . They wait off to the side, explaining to the group that they're scying for the mans where abouts.
Every now and then one of the candles stops above a certain point, but only for a second. Once they both stop, the daughter gets down on the map and draws some lines, based on where the candles stopped.
From that info, they decide that the man is to the east of them, and the group, the mother and the daughter all go off looking for him.
