Imps, warts and sex with the Devil: 400-year-old diary of Witchfinder General trials is opened to public for first time

By James Tozer
Last updated at 10:35 AM on 29th October 2010

Witchfinder: Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins in the 1968 film

It is one of the grimmest chapters of our history.

Dramatised in the horror film The Witchfinder General, the execution of scores of innocent village women for consorting with the Devil is chilling. MORE HERE.