What event does Goodman Brown come to witness deep in the forest and who is in attendance?

In 's short
story "," the title character comes to witness a satanic mass deep in the forest
outside his hometown of Salem. In attendance are all sorts of supposedly virtuous people as well
as people who not seen as virtuous. Here are a few quotations taken from the story (I'm just
listing without introducing or discussing them; don't do what I'm doing in a formal
essay!):

the shape of his own dead father

a woman, with dim features of despair, threw out her hand to warn him back. Was it his
mother?

the minister and good old Deacon Gookin

Goody
Cloyse, that pious teacher of the catechism, and Martha Carrier, who had received the devil's
promise to be queen of hell

It was strange to see that the good shrank not
from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Scattered also among their
pale-faced enemies were the Indian priests, or powwows, who had often scared their native forest
with more hideous incantations than any known to English witchcraft.

Most importantly to the story, of course, is that Young Goodman
Brown's wife, Faith, is also present.

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story.