Daemonologie
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Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books, usually known as Daemonologie, is a philosophical dissertation by James VI and I on contemporary necromancy and the historical relations
Title page of a 1603 reprinting
Suspected witches kneeling before King James, Daemonologie (1597)
Matthew Hopkins
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Matthew Hopkins 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 th
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…investigative approach to acquiring and analyzing evidence and obtaining witnesses to be present during witch-craft trials. There was also an influence on Matthew Hopkins in his work as a witch-finder between 1644 and 1646 in which an estimated 300 witches were tried and executed. In the year of Hopkins' death, 1647, he…
A portrait of Matthew Hopkins, 'The Celebrated Witch-finder', from the 1837 edition of The Discovery of Witches.