Gookin is one of the participants in the central event of this work.
Gookin is one of the participants in the central event of this work. The protagonist is surprised when a mysterious man claims to have known his father and his grandfather and recounts an occasion when his father set fire to an Indian village.  The man goes on to say that the deacons of many churches have drunk communion wine with him. Then, the man with a staff like a black serpent takes him to a secret meeting in the woods, where the title character's life is ruined by seeing his wife Faith at a witches' meeting. FTP, what is this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Gookin is one of the participants in the central event of this work.
"Young Goodman Brown"