Rediculous stories of flying on broomsticks have no place as evidence. Hopkins uses scriptual precedent to argue for the practice of "swimming a witch" and the same with other methodologies for seeking them out. These horrid monstrosties seeking, as "witches familiars", to suck upon the secret teat of a witch. Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General of East Anglia. He tells of an earlier encounter with demons, in the mixed up forms of animals, with names like, Vinegar Tom. The prosecutions for witchcraft increased drastically in the 17th century in Europe. 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). "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.
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