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Every witch way
I GREW up in Essex, an English county that stores, with its hidden qualities -- including exquisite countryside and villages, much painted by Constable -- secret vices.
Such as witchcraft. And "cunning men" famed for their abilities to work magic for good or ill. A mysterious craft that, as we shall see later, I may inadvertently have inherited.
More witches have been hanged in Essex, in East Anglia, than in any other part of England.
On one day alone in the mid-17th century in Essex, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, the 20-something son of a Puritan clergyman, outed and executed, in his youthful exuberance, 19 witches.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/every-witch-way/story-e6frg6z6-1226236831707