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because it used to be his job to hang them and he though he'd give it a try.
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Why did Matthew Hopkins become a witch hunter?
Matthew Hopkins traveled alongside John Stearne hunting witches in the English countryside. He created a company of his own to utilize throughout Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Huntingdon.
Who was a famous witch hunter?
Matthew Hopkins held the record for the most witches caught and found guilty, although he made them confess by means of torture
Who plays Scarlet Witch in The Avengers?
Scarlett Witch is bad to start with and becomes good. :-)
Why did Mia Michaels start dancing?
Mia started dancing as she grew up in a family of dancers witch got her into it herself
What actors and actresses appeared in Gabrielle and the Doodleman - 1984?
The cast of Gabrielle and the Doodleman - 1984 includes: Anna Dawson as Wicked Witch Matthew Kelly as Doodleman Prudence Oliver as Gabrielle Pierre Picton as Clown Eric Sykes as Genie
Were there any famous witches or witch finders in England?
Matthew Hopkins was the one in charge of the witch hunting(hope it helped a little)
Matthew Hopkins 17th century?
why did matthew hopkins want to become a witch hunter?
Who was the 'witch finder general'?
matthew hopkins
Why did Matthew Hopkins become a witch hunter?
Matthew Hopkins traveled alongside John Stearne hunting witches in the English countryside. He created a company of his own to utilize throughout Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Huntingdon.
Who was a famous witch hunter?
Matthew Hopkins held the record for the most witches caught and found guilty, although he made them confess by means of torture
Did Matthew Hopkins died by witches?
I just wanted to get rid of the other terrible answer so nobody read it and not the correct answer by the wikipedia researcher below. Also, Hopkins was never really believed to have been killed by witches, but by other witch hunters under suspicion that he was himself a witch, also a false rumor.This answer was written by Wikipedia's main researcher.There is no proof that Matthew Hopkins was attacked by a group of women. We must remember that there were no such things as "witches" and that Hopkins was using superstition to for profit. He died from a common illness in the 17th ;Tuberculosis
What did the witchfiner general Matthew Hopkins do?
Matthew Hopkins, d. 1647, was an English witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. He held, or claimed to hold, the office of "Witch-finder General", though this was not a title ever bestowed by Parliament (despite him having to have some form of official jurisdiction), conducting witch-hunts in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and other eastern counties of England.
What did mattew Hopkins do?
Mattew Hopkins was a witch catcher in Stuart times although there is no such thing as a witch. He just accused old women who lived on their own to be witches.
Why did Matthew Hopkins kill over 300 women?
He was a 'witch hunter'. He designed tests to find out if women were witches or not, but most, if not all of his tests led to death either way. This meant that whoever was accused of being a witch, no matter how stupid the reason, the were killed in whatever test the 'witch hunter' chose to use.
What did Hopkins do to stop witchcraft?
He accused people of being a witch and then put them on a trial and if they were still thought of as a witch they were hung
Who invented witch hunting?
the catholic church
How long did witch hunting go on?
3years
