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Hopkins Was a Witch Hunter
In 350 years that spanned the early 1400s to the late 1700s, less than 500 people in total were executed for witchcraft in all of England. In their short two-year operation though, Hopkins and his team were responsible for 300 of those deaths. His book, The Discovery of Witches, went on to fuel witch trials in the American colonies in the late 1600s. Some of his interrogation methods were even used in Salem, Massachusetts.