Description: Here is a short and abridged video on the activities of Matthew Hopkins the self-styled `Witchfinder General`.
The video focusses on his life in Manningtree, Essex, and his persecution of innocents claimed by him to be witches. Evidence is partly anecdotal and from records.
Hopkins was the source of the modern craze for Halloween, and his book, `The Discovery of Witches` was later used by English settlers in America as a yardstick guide for the further continuation of persecution of innocents as exampled by the infamous `Salem Witch Trials`.
The video deals briefly with this topic, and does not include all areas of known persecution in the Manningtree district.
There is an alleged `ducking area` known as Hopping Bridge in Manningtree. I was unable on the day of my visit to access this.
Today, the religious persecution of innocents still continues, and instead of Britain being the focus of these activities it now goes on with a medieval fervour in parts of Eastern Europe, and the Third World.
Humanity has still yet a long way to go..

Author: Constantine99999