Hopkins and Stern's Witch Trials

John Stern published his own defense of their work called a confirmation and discovery of witchcraft in 1648. Like Hopkins Stern pushed back on criticisms that quote there are no witches but that there are many poor silly ignorant people hanged wrongfully. Unlike Hopkins who made only one direct reference to King James's demonology Stern's work cites a lot more references especially Bible verses. by the time Stern published his book in 1648 the East Anglia witch trials were essentially over as English Civil War drew to a close.