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SYMHC Classics: Matthew Hopkins

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Witch Trials in England

Matthew Hopkins was known as the Witchfinder General. The trials happened in East Anglia between 1645 and 1647. Most of the people who were put to death in these trials were poor elderly women. Some of the methods that Hopkins and other investigators were using could be classified as torture.

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