Suffer, Witch, Suffer

It was a time when evil walked the land, when witches danced naked in the moonlight and put curses on innocent people. It was also a time of Witch Finders, professional men who went from town to town, seeking out those who might be witches and “putting them to the question”, a polite way of saying that they were tortured until they confessed.

In this time and place, there came Henry Mathews to the small town of Shrewsbury. It was not long before he had half a dozen of the prettiest girls in town in a basement dungeon, torturing them with whips, red-hot irons, with degrading and abusive acts upon their innocent bodies, and other inventive tortures designed to break down their wills and extract confessions from them. The confessions, of course, would only assure their places chained to a stake and burned alive!

Or maybe something worse...