nightmares about i myself wedding with fire-winged and hellish-looking demons and devils ; nightmares about enraged and murderous-looking mobs and throngs of people swarming over me and chasing me and stoning and hitting and beating me up and calling me a witch sent from the devil himself ; nightmares about the entire town gossiping and prattling and gibbering about how cursed i had been in killing any man that happened to be drawn in toward me .