Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Title: Witch Child
Author Celia Rees
Ratings: ¤¤¤
Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witch Finder General, was the model for Obediah Wilson. Hopkins operated in the Essex/East Anglia area between 1645-47 and during this period up to 200 women were hanged by him and his associates. Hopkins was paid 20 shillings for ridding a town of witches. Not an inconsiderable sum of money in those days. His career stopped abruptly in 1647, when he himself was ‘discovered as a sorcerer’ – and hanged.
Where could Mary go if she was orphaned by persecutions such as those inflicted by Matthew Hopkins? Who could she turn to? She would need a protector. A noble woman, perhaps, rich and powerful, but doomed by her husband’s deeds and actions. I took as my model Lucy Hutchinson, wife of Colonel John Hutchinson who was a Parlimentarian and commander in the New Model Army. He was also one of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant. Lucy Hutchinson was brave, strong, and resourceful, ‘above the pitch of ordinary women’. She accompanied her husband on his campaigns, withstood sieges with him, and ultimately saved him from execution. But Witch Child is a work of fiction and as such deals with what could have happened, not what did. I used Lucy Hutchinson as a template only. There is, of course, absolutely no evidence that she had an illegitimate daughter, or that she practised the Craft.
- http://www.witchchild.com/witchhunts.html
Author Celia Rees
Ratings: ¤¤¤
Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witch Finder General, was the model for Obediah Wilson. Hopkins operated in the Essex/East Anglia area between 1645-47 and during this period up to 200 women were hanged by him and his associates. Hopkins was paid 20 shillings for ridding a town of witches. Not an inconsiderable sum of money in those days. His career stopped abruptly in 1647, when he himself was ‘discovered as a sorcerer’ – and hanged.
Where could Mary go if she was orphaned by persecutions such as those inflicted by Matthew Hopkins? Who could she turn to? She would need a protector. A noble woman, perhaps, rich and powerful, but doomed by her husband’s deeds and actions. I took as my model Lucy Hutchinson, wife of Colonel John Hutchinson who was a Parlimentarian and commander in the New Model Army. He was also one of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant. Lucy Hutchinson was brave, strong, and resourceful, ‘above the pitch of ordinary women’. She accompanied her husband on his campaigns, withstood sieges with him, and ultimately saved him from execution. But Witch Child is a work of fiction and as such deals with what could have happened, not what did. I used Lucy Hutchinson as a template only. There is, of course, absolutely no evidence that she had an illegitimate daughter, or that she practised the Craft.
- http://www.witchchild.com/witchhunts.html
My Comment:
Nice story.
But it left me wondering if this is a real life account or a fictitious story.
It has got no ending. No one knew what happened to Mary.
She was accused of being the root of all troubles
and was almost captured and dealt with.
She ran off and the story just ended there.
No one knew if she was caught.
No one knew what happen to her...
Nice story.
But it left me wondering if this is a real life account or a fictitious story.
It has got no ending. No one knew what happened to Mary.
She was accused of being the root of all troubles
and was almost captured and dealt with.
She ran off and the story just ended there.
No one knew if she was caught.
No one knew what happen to her...
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