While Richard Wilson as Gaius pulls out all the stops when he's tortured by a witchfinder, and when the witchfinder is the deliciously harsh looking Charles Dance, who seems like he brought his own costume from home, it's telly drama as rich and sweet as chocolate cheesecake. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Witchfinder General (1968) - Charged with hunting down witches in 17th-century England, royalist "witchfinder" Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) travels from village to village with his brutish assistant Stearne (Robert Russell), forcing confessions and torturing women who refuse to comply. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Their remit seems to have expanded somewhat as they become more akin to the medieval ‘witchfinder general’ becoming so full of themselves and what they believe they stand for. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)
One would also hope that Bailey doesn't end up looming over the pre-watershed TV schedules like some witchfinder general of the overtly sexual. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Recall that Kay has, at least up to now, been an assiduous witchfinder in this regard. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The fact that this folksy cri-de-coeur came from a woman whose home church once bizarrely brought in a Kenyan witchfinder to pray over her and keep her safe from "the spirit of witchcraft" during 2008 election lent it a certain surreal, Sarah-through-the-looking-glass quality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Kate A - thank you again for a wonderful post I don't know how you find the energy or indeed the facts - I did pay tribute to your writing on "witchfinder balls" yesterday and I don't want to patronise you so I will just say how grateful I am that someone else is bothering to refute the "fisking" I have been getting from Mike - lol phil ❋ Unknown (2008)
Armed with nothing but the power of reason and her memory of Isobel's love, Jennet cannot rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the second half of the novel we witness Jennet's brother, the "last witchfinder" of the title, executing people for supposed heresy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Their chief witchfinder General hot off a polically charged nuclear spy bust' is worried because despite ersatz replacements, parents are dissing the regime. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Words that Word doesn't recognise: swordsmith, salle, witchfinder ❋ Hawkwing_lb (2007)
Bad psychics: site with a particular interest in catching out TV psychics, such as the one who picked up the energy of witchfinder Matthew Hopkins (in a village Hopkins never visited) and channelled one of Hopkins 'gang, a man named Francis Miller (not realising that Miller was a woman, Frances). ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)
The Inquisition—which had been created specifically to deal with the Cathars—swung easily into its new role as witchfinder, torturer and murderer, although the Protestants were also to join in with gusto. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2004)
The witchfinder; She believes satanic abuse is common. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The thing about this picture was that in this one case (as she also knew from family tradition), for the only time in his career as a witchfinder, Deaton had caught someone who'd deserved to be caught. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1994)
