The Rise and Fall of Witch Trials in England

You can see some patterns in terms of the rise and fall of witch trials or intensity. You can try and map them on to times of great instability, such as war or famine. When you look at the civil war, british civil war period in the ten century in england, there is a spike. We have to be careful, because most of the spike in trials is called by matthew hopkins. In other words, he's his proactive campaign. He doesn't actually try them. What he does, as they says, is like an investigating judge. So he's not judge and jury in this, but he skews the figures when it comes en.