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From Cambridgeshire, Hopkins's course took him, perhaps in March of 1645/6, into Northamptonshire. There he found at least two villages infested, and he turned up some remarkable evidence. So far in his crusade, the keeping of imps had been the test infallible upon which the witchfinder insisted. But at Northampton spectral evidence seems to have played a considerable part.
He was ready for some new venture and an accidental circumstance in Manningtree turned him into a wholly new field of endeavor. He assumed the rôle of a witchfinder and is said to have taken the title of witchfinder-general. He had made little or no preparation for the work that now came to his hand.
The night is not so dark but good men may know each other." "What wouldst thou here?" said Master Hans, completely recovered from his spiritual alarm. "I cannot rest," replied the witchfinder with bitterness. "Until her last ashes shall have mingled with the wind, I shall take no repose, body or mind.
"Die then in thy obstinacy, miserable woman," cried the Ober-Amtmann in a suppressed voice "Let justice take its course!" "Denouncer!" said the chief schreiber to the witchfinder, "hast thou further evidence to offer?" "Needs it more to convict a criminal of the foul and infernal practices of witchcraft?" cried Black Claus with bitterness.
But when the cripple, in his despair, shook, in his nervous grasp, the bars of the grating in the door, as if he would wrench it from its staples, and flung himself in desperation against the strongly-ironed wooden mass, with a violence that threatened, in spite of its great strength, to burst it open, the matter seemed to become more serious in their eyes. "Hollo, man! witchfinder! Black Claus!
Some five or six months past it came upon me. I know not when or how!" "Bears he no charm upon him?" exclaimed the Ober-Amtmann aloud. "He bears a charm upon him!" cried the witchfinder in triumph. "And ask who bound it round his neck?" "It is false! I bear no charm!" cried Gottlob eagerly. "She herself denied that it was such." "Of what does he speak?" cried the Ober-Amtmann.
When we come to the time of the Civil Wars we cannot forget that Stearne and Hopkins met opposition, not alone from the Huntingdon minister, but from a large party in Norfolk, who finally forced the witchfinder to defend himself in court. Nor can we forget the witch-pricker of Berwick who was sent a-flying back to his native northern soil, nor the persistent Mrs.
"It is Claus Schwartz!" said Hans, taking breath. "Or the devil in his form," pursued his fellow-sentinel with more caution. "Stand back!" he shouted, as the witchfinder came within a few yards, "and declare who thou art." "Has the foul hag within there bewitched thee?" cried Black Claus; "or has she smitten thee with blindness? Canst thou not see?
The conclusion cannot be avoided that the female witchfinder had been at no small pains to get even such minute details in exact form. She had gathered together all the witch stories of that part of Northumberland and had embodied them in her account of the confessions made at the "conventicles." What was the ruling of the court on all this evidence we do not know.
This was the first alligator I ever saw hooked; he measured sixteen and a half feet exactly, but words can give no idea of half the excitement that attended the capture. Native superstitions. Charming a bewitched woman. Exorcising ghosts from a field. Witchcraft. The witchfinder or 'Ojah. Influence of fear. Snake bites. How to cure them. How to discover a thief. Ghosts and their habits.
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