{"id":11188,"date":"2022-03-01T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=201374"},"modified":"2022-03-01T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:21:08","slug":"witch-hunters-cynical-persecutors-or-misguided-zealots","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/witch-hunters-cynical-persecutors-or-misguided-zealots\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 01 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\" font-weight:=\"\">Marion Gibson discusses the motivations and methods of \u201cwitch finders\u201d who sought out supernatural wrongdoing in Stuart Britain. 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