What Is the Work of a Witch Finder?

Gall believed that witches existed and in his opinion total disbelief in witches was a first step on a path of disbelieving in God. But at the same time he thought what was really at work in England in 1646 was superstition. He thought that people were using witchcraft and demons to find something to blame for the ordinary problems of life. Gall also noted that this whole profession of witch finder seemed to be a new invention. Before this work had fallen to people like magistrates and justices of the peace but now it was being handled by people like Matthew Hopkins who was calling himself the witch finder general.