Tag: witchcraft
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Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General and Vile-Hearted Renaissance Peckerhead of the Month
Lately, I’ve been a little obsessed with early modern witchcraft. Perhaps it’s because of the poppet in my hedge. Or perhaps it’s because I took the BBC’s online quiz “Would You Have Been Accused of Witchcraft” (short answer: yes). Probably it’s a combination of the two: a realization that, had I lived in 17th-century England, […]