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Again were whirled upwards the forms of the cripple and the female, still tightly pressed within his arms; and then a rush of waters, more powerful than the son's frantic grasp, tore them asunder. Nothing now was visible but a floating body, which again disappeared in the eddying flood; and now again the form of the witchfinder rose above the mass of waters.
Bitter it is to die; but I had accepted all as the will of Him above, and he knows my innocence of all dealings with the powers of hell." "Innocent!" cried the witchfinder in frightful agitation. "Were it possible! And is it I, thy own child, who strikes the blow I, who am thy murderer I, who, to avenge the mother, have condemned the mother to the stake? Horrible!
The writer of this pamphlet acknowledges his indebtedness to Potts, Discoverie of Witches in the countie of Lancaster , and to Bernard, Guide to Grand Jurymen . These books had been used by Stearne and doubtless by Hopkins. This pamphlet expresses Hopkins's ideas, it is written in Hopkins's style so far as we know it and it may have been the work of the witchfinder himself.
"Such, they say, are the first evidences of the working of those charms that witches breathe over their victims." "And let the Fraulein Bertha tell," cried the witchfinder, "how it has been yonder youth who has seemed to exercise this influence of ill upon her."
"The wretched woman has already admitted a part of the truth;" and, with a sign to the denouncer, he bade him proceed. The witchfinder paused for a moment, and gave one long look of tenderness and pity as far, indeed, as his harsh, rudely-stamped features could express such feelings at the pale face of Bertha.
"It is not he that will aid her to escape. Let him pass. They'll make a fine sport with one another, the witchfinder and the witch dog and cat. Zist, zist!" continued the young soldier, laughing and making a movement and a sound as if setting on the two above-mentioned animals to worry each other. "Take care," said his more scrupulous companion. "Jest not with such awful work.
When recovered from his fit, the cripple again raised his head it was to cast a glance at the object of his denunciation, in which hatred and triumph were blended together, in one of those occasional flashes of wildness which showed that there was a vein of insanity running through all the frenzied zeal of the witchfinder.
As the witchfinder peered, with knitted brow, through the bars of the grating, it seemed to him at first, so complete was the darkness within, as though the cell was tenantless; and his first movement was to turn, in order to warn the guards of the escape of their prisoner.
A clergyman of Great Staughton became outraged at his work and preached against it. The witchfinder had been invited to visit the town and hesitated. Meantime he wrote this blustering letter to one of John Gaule's parishioners.
At least fifteen other places in Suffolk are mentioned by Stearne in his stories of the witches' confessions. While Hopkins's subordinates probably represented him in some of the villages, we cannot doubt that the witchfinder himself visited many towns. From East Anglia Hopkins went westward into Cambridgeshire. His arrival there must have been during either January or February.
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