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Author : Craig Cabell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Witchfinder General written by Craig Cabell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Trials (Witchcraft) categories.
Matthew Hopkins is perhaps the most notorious, certainly the most productive, witchfinder that England ever boasted. In eighteen months between 1645 and 1646, he was responsible for the condemnation and execution of at least 230 witches in south-east England and East Anglia. His victims were for the most part elderly women, though men too, even respected clergymen, faced trial and capital punishment for performing witchcraft and making covenants with Satan. Hopkins had appointed himself Witchfinder General by order of Parliament but his reputation as a local hero became tarnished by his use of excessive torture, too many false accusations, and confessions obtained by dubious means. His death is somewhat mysterious. He died while still quite young, possibly after having been accused of witchcraft himself and executed. Craig Cabell, already a noted biographer of such contemporary students of the occult as Dennis Wheatley and James Herbert, uses the copious extant records and Hopkins's own writings, to create a richly detailed picture of a man and a society obsessed with magic, devil worship and the powers of darkness. He provides the first full modern biography of a man who turned his undoubted energies and gifts into a streamlined, and profitable, killing machine.
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Author : Ian Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-06
Witchfinder General written by Ian Cooper and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes the exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a prolific, real-life "witch hunter," during the English Civil War. For critic Mark Kermode, the release proved to be "the single most significant horror film produced in the United Kingdom in the 1960s," while playwright Alan Bennett called the work "the most persistently sadistic and rotten film I've ever seen." Steadily gaining a cult reputation, unimpeded by the director's death just months after the film's release, the film is now treated as a landmark, though problematic, accomplishment, as it exists in a number of recut, retitled, and rescored versions. This in-depth study positions the film within the history of horror and discusses its importance as a British and heritage film. It also considers the inheritance of Hopkins, the script's relationship to the novel by Ronald Bassett, and the iconic persona of the film's star, Vincent Price. Ian Cooper conducts close textual readings of specific scenes and explores the film's various contexts, from the creation of the X certificate and the tradition of Hammer gothic, to the influence on Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and the "torture porn" of twenty-first-century horror.
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Author : Ronald Bassett
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 1966
Witchfinder General written by Ronald Bassett and has been published by Pan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
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Author : Ian Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-13
Witchfinder General written by Ian Cooper and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes the exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a prolific, real-life "witch hunter," during the English Civil War. For critic Mark Kermode, the release proved to be "the single most significant horror film produced in the United Kingdom in the 1960s," while playwright Alan Bennett called the work "the most persistently sadistic and rotten film I've ever seen." Steadily gaining a cult reputation, unimpeded by the director's death just months after the film's release, the film is now treated as a landmark, though problematic, accomplishment, as it exists in a number of recut, retitled, and rescored versions. This in-depth study positions the film within the history of horror and discusses its importance as a British and heritage film. It also considers the inheritance of Hopkins, the script's relationship to the novel by Ronald Bassett, and the iconic persona of the film's star, Vincent Price. Ian Cooper conducts close textual readings of specific scenes and explores the film's various contexts, from the creation of the X certificate and the tradition of Hammer gothic, to the influence on Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and the "torture porn" of twenty-first-century horror.
Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General
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Author : James Vi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General written by James Vi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with categories.
Witchfinder General Nuottikirja
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Author : Sami Mäensivu
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-06-19
Witchfinder General Nuottikirja written by Sami Mäensivu and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-19 with Music categories.
WITCHFINDER GENERAL There will always be people, high in power, who will take advantage of their position and when it comes to someones believes it may cause a total lack of common sense. Cynical, medieval composition with witch hunter and a girl (accused) character. Witch-phobia and procecutions for the crime of witchcraft reached a highpoint from 1580 to 1630. True evil can be found in the rulers...
The Witchfinder General
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Author : Joyce Gould
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2016-01-14
The Witchfinder General written by Joyce Gould and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-14 with Political Science categories.
Labour's octogenarian powerhouse weaves together eighty years of fascinating personal, social and political history in her memoirs. From Boots Girl to Baroness, Joyce Gould boasts an impressive list of experiences and accomplishments. Through sixty-four years as a Labour Party member, she has fought for universal equality, for the right to a good standard of life for all, and for the spirit of her beloved party. The Witchfinder General is the political autobiography of the woman who notoriously made Labour electable again - nicknamed the Witchfinder General for her determination to end the debilitating discord of the 1980s by uncovering and removing the Militant Tendency - and as such it is a tender and frank depiction of the party over the past six decades. But more than that, it is a social history as seen through the eyes of someone who lived it, and a personal history of a pharmacist's apprentice turned political warrior, who has dedicated her life to making the world a better place. These memoirs document a long career in the fight for equality, the building of the modern Labour Party and the creation of the Britain we know today.
The Discovery Of Witches And Witchcraft
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Author : Matthew Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Puckrel Publishing
Release Date : 2007
The Discovery Of Witches And Witchcraft written by Matthew Hopkins and has been published by Puckrel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Witchcraft categories.
Scholarly reprint of the writings of the Witchfinder General and his accomplice.
Witchfinder General
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Author : (Dir.) Reeves. Michael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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Author : Eric Barnes (Writer on wargames)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Witchfinder General written by Eric Barnes (Writer on wargames) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with War games categories.