Witch-prickers are the stuff of horror films but they did exist and in 17th Century Scotland one woman decided it looked like a good job.

In the 1600s, self-proclaimed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins stirred public panic with his book, “The Discovery of Witches,” as competing Catholics and Protestants sought to attract new ...

Vincent Price played Matthew Hopkins in the 1968 film Witchfinder General Hopkins (c.1620-1647) lived in Mistley, Essex and his first accusation was in neighbouring Manningtree.

Dorothy Good was only 4 years old when she confessed to being a witch (simultaneously implicating her mother, Sarah, who was hanged in 1692). Dorothy was imprisoned for nine months before her release.

Witchfinder General is one of the most downbeat horror films ever made in Britain, so it follows that its central character, real-life witch hunter Matthew Hopkins, should be one of the most ...

THE self-proclaimed Witchfinder-General, Matthew Hopkins, has become one of the iconic figures of 17th-century England. The witch-hunt led by Hopkins was, by far, the biggest staged in England ...

News; UK News; Politics; Essex 'witch' could receive pardon 370 years after she was executed for 'killing baby with sorcery' Anne West was hanged in 1645 after being branded a witch by her own ...

Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder General. From a broadside published by Hopkins before 1650. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain We have been going through an unusually challenging year that has ...

Matthew Hopkins earned a small fortune securing evidence and oversaw the largest single witch trial in England at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where 18 people were hanged Tigon Film Productions ...