Matthew Hopkins The Witchfinder General

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  • @alittlebitofhistory
    @alittlebitofhistory  3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    My Apologies for the lateness of this upload, but for if you didn't see the post I made I lost all internet for the past 36 hours but I hope you enjoy it now.

    • @folkloreofbeing
      @folkloreofbeing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No need to apologise, dude. Not only is video production not easy, but you have a life as well and stuff happens.
      You're giving us FREE high quality content and you have clearly worked your chops off on the channel this month. You deserve a lot of tea and cake 🍰☕

    • @ouroboris
      @ouroboris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You need to sacrifice a computer to the internet gods. Fortunately you can sacrifice an old Dell laptop and the results will be the same. Good luck.

    • @MultiSirens
      @MultiSirens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Still enjoy your uploads thank you! X

    • @georginaellison6280
      @georginaellison6280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love you're work, though I'm from Galway Ireland and live in New York, I love local history.I love your research and history!!!!! I look forward to more of your videos!!!😺😺😺❤️

    • @kenpudsey6435
      @kenpudsey6435 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was exelĺent..well done!

  • @StaceyHopkins-yl1gp
    @StaceyHopkins-yl1gp ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is my my 4th maybe 5th grandad. Nice to learn some family history. No matter how weird 😕

  • @julieblackstock8650
    @julieblackstock8650 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I live about 10 miles from Manningtree. I went past the Pub he is meant to haunt. I intend to have a drink in there some time soon

  • @Tsumami__
    @Tsumami__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And that is why some of the pilgrims went to go live with the quakers. Those puritans were CRAZY.

  • @davidevans3498
    @davidevans3498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Best line in the film Witchfinder General was "I do the pricking ...." What more can I say

  • @tango6nf477
    @tango6nf477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think you might be charitable to suggest that Hopkins genuinely believed in what he was doing, he seems to have made a small fortune (in those days) for his "work" . He might have just been an opportunist taking advantage of circumstances at a terrible cost to those innocent victims.

  • @dburton2765
    @dburton2765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hiya! What a treat 😃 xx

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    . . . certainly a sadistic man. Psychopath? Possibly. Still, I have no doubt that it was fueled by a love of power and being glorified.

    • @JAW-i5z
      @JAW-i5z 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's Vronsky's point in his last book about psychopaths, Sons of Cain. That most of these inquisitors were what we'd call today psychopaths.

  • @14rnr
    @14rnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks dude

  • @jared1870
    @jared1870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    An excellent end to the Halloween season! Here in the U.S. Halloween blends into the Day of the Dead which is today and then November 5 is Guy Hawks, so for me the party continues. Thank you for your continued dedication to history.

  • @greenman6141
    @greenman6141 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is an excellent video. It sums up so cogently and clearly the background and the specifics of the Why East Anglia...which academics write papers about to this day.
    What a superb video. Even the connections with the New England witch madness are mentioned.

  • @boundsgreenboy8354
    @boundsgreenboy8354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another great presentation and greatly enjoyed. Thank you sir.

  • @hgee6311
    @hgee6311 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Superb storytelling! Thank you.

  • @norfolkmountainman4332
    @norfolkmountainman4332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great presentation mate. I really enjoyed it..

  • @piparalegal2019
    @piparalegal2019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I truly found all of the spooky uploads you did this month enjoyable and interesting! :)

  • @duvessa2003
    @duvessa2003 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Darn! I liked the idea of Hopkins being treated with his own medicine.

  • @MsAnitawilson
    @MsAnitawilson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yayy another video! I live in Norwich love your videos

  • @mfollett3613
    @mfollett3613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I read in the past, that he was hanged as a witch. Your story puts a difference complexion on that. I'd forgot he was still so young when he died, he must have been very charismatic in life.

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember seeing something on Blue Peter when I was young saying that's how he died as well, I guess the truth and fiction are often confused with him.

  • @mikereger1186
    @mikereger1186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh! So this is what happened to that monster. I’d heard he had simply vanished.
    Good stuff!

  • @beebeelicious
    @beebeelicious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for the spooky stuff, really enjoyed it!

  • @lesleysmith51
    @lesleysmith51 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember learning about him. I think he was partly a misogynist as the vast number of cases were against women. I thought had a chair device for testing people in water to see if the drowned or not. Another great presentation with great illustrations. I love the earlier black ink drawings.

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe there was many different ways it was done over the centuries.

  • @MarkByrne1965
    @MarkByrne1965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent as always. 👏👏👏👏

  • @MultiSirens
    @MultiSirens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This did the water test for everyone! Not just for witches!

  • @jessicapayne8622
    @jessicapayne8622 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Apparently he stayed in the village of worle, somerset. The vallient soldier inn.

  • @eudorasmamasgarden7538
    @eudorasmamasgarden7538 ปีที่แล้ว

    Delightfully done! Another tale delivered with panache and irony. I hope you have a wonderful new year planned for yourself and your loved ones. Your stories online have been greatly missed.

  • @masonicdude
    @masonicdude ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is very well researched. Good video!

  • @tinyGrim1
    @tinyGrim1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you 💞 love your channel

  • @georginaellison6280
    @georginaellison6280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great work!

  • @philm652
    @philm652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great videos. Keep them up!!!

  • @davidhuntington82887
    @davidhuntington82887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

  • @floraposteschild4184
    @floraposteschild4184 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He should have been brought before the magistrates in the shire in which he dwelt.

  • @michaelshapely9886
    @michaelshapely9886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think Hopkins was a witch and this was the covens way to make people believe there was no witches.

    • @Victoria_Watts89
      @Victoria_Watts89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Interesting 🤔

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You might want to seek a therapist, Mike

  • @sallyh7282
    @sallyh7282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What an evil man he was. Making himself a very good living out of those unlawful killings! I was shocked at his age because I didn't realise he was so young!

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  ปีที่แล้ว

      I know I always pictured him as far older as well I guess that what happens when he is most seen as Vincent Price in the film.

  • @jamiewilson5679
    @jamiewilson5679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Witches are from Suffolk.🔰

  • @edcarson3113
    @edcarson3113 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    We could be doing with such a position nowadays.

  • @foxesofautumn
    @foxesofautumn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is what it looks like when Hufflepuffs go bad.

  • @robertalpy
    @robertalpy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have two vestigial nipples. Barely visible. If i were born in the early 17th century id be a goner.

  • @alanleemaxwell831
    @alanleemaxwell831 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Narcissism, power and religious fanaticism at their worst.
    Far more evil than anyone he persecuted...

    • @alittlebitofhistory
      @alittlebitofhistory  ปีที่แล้ว

      I would honestly consider him among the biggest evils the country has ever seen.

  • @priestessmikokikyo77
    @priestessmikokikyo77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope the murderious people killer is burning in hell for what he did.

  • @hellenback7588
    @hellenback7588 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He Was Gay!!!