Ceremonies and Ritual in Fiction by Egantx7

Question 9

This 1835 story ends with the title character having become cynical, noting they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom.. This gets traced back to a real or imagined event where the title character sees the town at an evil ceremony at night in the woods, with his wife, Faith, and himself about to be inducted into their dark society. Identify this Nathanial Hawthorne short story which sees the title character at what may have been a "witches sabbath" ritual.

Young Goodman Brown

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