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Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-century English Tragedy (Paperback)
$15.62 - Save $1.74 (10%) - RRP $17.36 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Witchfinders'The most chilling witch-hunt in English history ... fascinating' Independent on Sunday
Full description- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published: 24 April 2006
- Format: Paperback 384 pages
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- Categories: British & Irish History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Witchcraft & Wicca | Witchcraft
- ISBN 13: 9780719561214 ISBN 10: 0719561213
- Sales rank: 177,356
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Full description for Witchfinders
By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women suspected of witchcraft, triggering the most brutal witch-hunt in English history. Witchfinders is a spellbinding study of how Matthew Hopkins, 'the Witchfinder General', and John Stearne extended their campaign across East Anglia, driven by godly zeal. Exploiting the anxiety and lawlessness of the times, and cheered on by ordinary folk, they extracted confessions of satanic pacts resulting in scores of executions.
