Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
A detailed history of the 1645–1647 East Anglian witch-hunts, exploring the methods of professional witchfinders and the troubled era that allowed the persecution to flourish.
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This book examines the intense witch-hunting campaign that swept through East Anglia in the mid-seventeenth century.
It draws on contemporary records to describe the methods used by professional witchfinders and the social conditions that enabled the trials.
The narrative places these events within the wider turmoil of the English Civil War period.
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