Summary Of Witchfinders By Malcolm Gaskill

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Witchfinders Witchfinders is a book by Malcolm Gaskill that looks upon strategies that were employed by two Christian crusaders in their quest to mitigate witches in England. The book explores England’s important story and the biggest witch hunt. In the book, Gaskill brings out issues relating to religious and social lives in a very fascinating way. The whole book brings to right ways that witch-finders used to support their brutality and bloodshed in the ancient England notably through biblical justifications. In the book either, the author brings out the demonic ways of the 1640s in East Anglia and through keen analyzes of the factors that are being stipulated in the book one can factor out the rotten society in the time and to some degree relate this to the current society and religious behaviors. The current paper looks upon the short and long term factors …show more content…

One of such factor was to restore moral balance and insecurities in the society. The two notorious witch hunters in the book John Stearne and Matthew Hopkins are presented hunting witches in East Anglian mainly through interrogating the suspects. The main method that is used in the interrogation is torture and some suspects mainly the elderly women confess of being witches. Some of them are killed as an act of removing these evil acts from the society. Generally, witches are associated with evil acts in the society and therefore them being wiped from the society was a sign of ensuring morals are maintained in the in the society and eliminating insecurity issues related to witches. Another short term factor that led to witch hunt was to ensure that the society lived and uphold Christians’ values. The witch hunters used the teachings of the Bible in hunting the witches with the objective of hunting them out from the society. This was aimed at wiping out evil acts from the society and ensuring the people lived the Christian

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