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The Discovery of Witches
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 22 mins
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Summary
FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of The Discovery of Witches. In 1645 Matthew Hopkins began his career as Witchfinder General. He travelled the country searching for witches and wizards, those he found, he had put to death. Questions were raised by judges and priests when he they saw him convicting hundreds of men and women. To answer their questions Matthew wrote and published this explanation of his methods and motivations.
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- BoHoBaggins
- 01-10-24
Interesting
Well read. It is a remarkable artefact of history and worthy of an audiobook. I am now off to Mistley
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Vincent
- 23-12-12
Satan's Scourge
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Stating, straightaway, that Bible axiom, in the words of the 17th century Witch Finder General, Matthew Hopkins, the narrator, Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot, brings to the 21st century a pamphlet, written, in the first person, by that 17th century zealot. In it Mr. Hopkins gives reasons for, defends and, righteously as far as he is concerned, justifies his campaign and methods against those who stooped to the abominal practice of witchcraft, in eastern England, at the time of the English civel war (1640tys). He tells of an earlier encounter with demons, in the mixed up forms of animals, with names like, Vinegar Tom. These horrid monstrosties seeking, as "witches familiars", to suck upon the secret teat of a witch. They find only frustration.
Hopkins uses scriptual precedent to argue for the practice of "swimming a witch" and the same with other methodologies for seeking them out. His ways are lawful. Only the geniune witch need fear him. Rediculous stories of flying on broomsticks have no place as evidence.
Of historical interest and told well.
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