Matthew Hopkins was the son of a Puritan minister who was believed to be younger than 30 when he died in 1647. Matthew Hopkins: Witch Finder Generall - click to enlarge What?! A book about about the hunted named after a guide targeted to their pursuers?! Wow! Why hello irony, your name is Deborah Harkness! :) The Discovery of Witches is a witch hunter's how-to guide by Matthew Hopkins. The title of the first volume of our beloved trilogy "A Discovery of Witches" is an egg in and of itself, and it's packed with meaning! The book that we all know and love-about a reluctant witch who is forced to come to grips with her powers and accept her destiny-actually borrows its title from a 17th century tome called The Discovery of Witches*. Today's adventure in this trilogy touches on one of our geekly themes - the importance of names - and in turn, it provides us with our first Easter egg!
Welcome to our first installment of "Weekly Geek!" For this installment, we decided to start at the beginning - the very beginning.
Weekly Geek - Installment 1: 'The Discovery of Witches'
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