![]() Opposition to his activities was slow on the uptake, what with there being a civil war on and everything but eventually enough people questioned his methods that he knocked it all on the head, after making a good bit of cash from his activities. ![]() We might expect there were loads of people executed for witchcraft back then but in fact there were perhaps 500 in total for all of England over 350 years and Hopkins did 300 of those in just three years and in one area. Why is he so infamous? Well, in those three years he was responsible for the deaths of perhaps 300 women. ![]() He did it in East Anglia in England and he was only in his mid-twenties when he died (sadly, of natural causes… probably). An evil man who escaped justice by dying.įor some context, he was “witch-finding” for only about three years between 1644-1647. ![]()
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