Quotes About Witchfinder

Indeed," shrieked Cryer. "Indeed, and surely I do raise it, for the Witchfinder himself, who cleansed our town not a year since, made a point of it on several occasions.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

Matthias Hopkins, commonly called "witchfinder general," took advantage of the disorders of the English civil wars of the seventeenth century and made a special business of the discovery of witches. He was quite successful, until his own methods were tried on his own person, and as he did not sink in the water ordeal, the people declared him to be a wizard and slew him (1647).