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    The Discovery of Witches
    The Discovery of Witches
    The Discovery of Witches
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    The Discovery of Witches

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    The Discovery of Witches
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    Matthew Hopkins

    Matthew Hopkins(1620-1647) was an English witch hunter. Self-proclaimed as the “Witchfinder General”, Hopkins and his associates were very active during the English Civil War, and fed into the propaganda and panic over witchcraft. Responsible for over one-hundred deaths, it has been figured that Hopkins accounted for about twenty percent of the total executions of English witches spanning from the 15th century to the 18th century. Since he and his partners were only active for fourteen months, that means that Hopkins killed more people than any other witch hunter in one-hundred and sixty years. Hopkins died young, and since the records of his birth and family were lost, he quickly became known as a monstrous figure in folk lore.

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    The Discovery of Witches - Matthew Hopkins

    The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Discovery of Witches, by Matthew Hopkins

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    Title: The Discovery of Witches

    Author: Matthew Hopkins

    Release Date: November 10, 2004 [eBook #14015]

    Language: English

    Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES***

    E-text prepared by Feòrag NicBhrìde, Andrea Ball,

    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

    The

    Discovery of Witches:

    In

    Answer to severall QUERIES,

    LATELY

    Delivered to the Judges of Assize for the

    County of NORFOLK.

    And now published

    By MATTHEW HOPKINS, Witch-finder,

    FOR

    The Benefit of the whole KINGDOME.

    M. DC. XLVII.

    EXOD. 22.18.

    Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

    Certaine Queries answered, which have been and are likely to be objected against MATTHEW HOPKINS, in his way of finding out Witches.

    Querie 1.

    That he must needs be the greatest Witch, Sorcerer, and Wizzard himselfe, else hee could not doe it.

    Answ.

    If Satan's kingdome be divided against it selfe, how shall it stand?

    Querie 2.

    If he never went so farre as is before mentioned, yet for certaine he met with the Devill, and cheated him of his Booke, wherein were written all the Witches names in England, and if he looks on any Witch, he can tell by her countenance what she is; so by this, his helpe is from the Devill.

    Answ.

    If he had been too hard for the devill and got his book, it had been to his great commendation, and no disgrace at all: and for judgement in Phisiognomie, he hath no more then any man else whatsoever.

    Quer. 3.

    From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading

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