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d. 1647
Matthew Hopkins (c. 1620 – 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He was mainly active in East Anglia and claimed to hold the office of Witchfinder General, although that title was never bestowed by Parliament.
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That he must needs be the greatest Witch, Sorcerer, and Wizzard himselfe, else hee could not doe it.
The Discovery of Witches (1647)
Exod.22.18,
The Discovery of Witches (1647)
Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like an Oxe, with a long taile and broad eyes, who when this discoverer spoke to, and bade him goe to the place provided for him and his Angels, immediately transformed himselfe into the shape of a child of foure yeeres old without a head, and gave halfe a dozen turnes about the house, and vanished at the doore.
The Discovery of Witches (1647)
From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors concerning that subject?
The Discovery of Witches (1647)