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…At the Black Sabbath in the woods, the converts are baptized into evil. The Black Sabbath itself is full pledged evil, and the baptism into evil is totally turning away from god. By using symbolistic settings, Hawthorne sets characters up to create evil. Using symbolistic settings and leading citizens, Hawthorne says that everybody is capable of sin. Hawthorne wrote a great short story with one distinct message. Everybody commits sins, but not everyone accepts sins.