Description
Vinegar Tom is a familiar spirit or imp mentioned in ‘The Discovery of Witches’ (1647) by Matthew Hopkins.
The Discovery of Witches gained significant notoriety during the era of the English Civil War, as Hopkins detailed his methods of identifying and prosecuting individuals believed to be witches.
Within the pages of the book, Hopkins described encounters with various alleged familiar spirits or imps, which were believed to be supernatural companions associated with witches. The frontispiece from the book shows one particular (alleged) encounter.
Vinegar Tom is described as a ‘long-legged Greyhound, with a head like an Ox, with a long tail and broad eyes, who … transformed himself into the shape of a child of four years old without a head, and gave half a dozen turns about the house, and vanished at the door.’
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