The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins

sleep deprivation and being forced to walk constantly) as a means of obtaining confessions etc: 'But there hath been an abominable, inhumane, and unmerciful tryall of these poore creatures, by tying them, and heaving them into the water'. The questions express concern regarding the possibility of 'witch mark' being the result of a medical condition, the use of torture (e.g. You don't normally hear about the resistance and the questioning of the abuses and I was very happy to see them here. I found the questions much more interesting and revealing than the answers given, and agree with another reviewer here that 'the questions reveal a much more sophisticated and nuanced view of witch hunts by his contemporaries than they are often credited for'. This is a very short text (38 pages) composed of 14 questions critiquing Matthew Hopkins's methods of finding and prosecuting witches and his replies. Luis Garavito etc., members of the 300+ victims club. For lying is thy sustenance, thy food'† a serial killer by proxy and should be included with others of his type e.g. Maybe this is part of the reason why the Native Americans were so ruthlessly exterminated? -They were excellent swimmers, the American crawl being their invention.Ĭoncluding Note: Matthew Hopkins was the 'Arch-Fiend, now undisguised. Obviously, anyone who has the unnatural ability to swim is in covenant with the 'Devill.' N.B. Note on the text: 'Swimming' means just that viz. Note: I believe that Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation was inspired by Milton's 1667 'Paradise Lost' i.e. *Is the idea that an apple falling from a tree downward to the Earth is phenomenally linked to the motion of the Moon (which is actually moving away from the Earth ) any less idiotic than the preceding? Both are simply the artificial linking of phenomena, which is thought to be the basis of knowledge (science), but is actually the basis of error. yeers.' Yet today, the vast majority of the same intellectually retarded people (now known as scientists) still believe implicitly in equally bogus Newtonian physics. '* The Principia of Newton was published in 1687 only forty years after 'The Discovery' and both asserted the same Biblically based age of the Earth, Newton c. Witches deny their Baptisme when they Covenant with the Devill,' therefore 'the water refuseth to receive them.

The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins