The Discovery of Witches
Subtitle: A Study of Master Matthew Hopkins Commonly Called Witch Finder General 1647
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781417976744
Subjects: Wicca; Witchcraft & Wicca; Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age; Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft & Wicca
First sentence: IN the earliest English codes of law, such as the statutes of Withraed, King of Kent, of Edward and Gunthrun, as well as those of Aethelstan and King Edgar, of Ethelred and Cnut; in the most ancient Penitentials, as for example the famous collection of S. Theodore, seventh Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Confessional of Ecgberht, Archbishop of York, who received the pallium from Pope Gregory III in 735; in ecclesiastical canons and the decrees of secular witenagemot alike, there are laws, prohibitive and minatory, against sorcery and the practices of witchcraft, which were ever recognized as a very real and terrible evil.