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But that isn't really intended to feature much witch-hunting. The emphasis is very much on a fairy-tale approach, where the odd rustic witch (or smart-alec philosopher) can brew potions, do a few rituals, and talk to cats, without more than a raised eyebrow from the neighbours. And the primary centre of things is the world's Europe-analogue (and overseas travel is meant to be much more Gulliver's Travels than Pirates of the Caribbean.
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02-15-2010, 12:54 AM | #26 |
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"Zorro and the Witch's Curse" by John Whitman actually mixed the two story elements a bit. IIRC, d'Artagnan even started out on his way to Paris with a magical potion of some sort, though that factoid is and has been easily excised from most retellings of the story.
Certainly Manley Wade Wellman's character "Silver John" could be moved back to swashbuckling time easily enough and perhaps buffed a bit to be the swashbuckling hero. I think that sort of fiction would work quite well.
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Gah. I can't believe I hadn't remembered this earlier: the Solomon Kane stories by Robert E. Howard. Although a lot of the "witchcraft" he encounters comes from an African shaman who is on his side ...
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Recently, C.C. Humphreys has written a couple of books- The French Executioner and Blood Ties that also do a nice job combining swashbuckling and the occult in a 16th century setting.
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Wasn't Red Sonya (Howard's spelling) originally a 1500s era adventuress operating out of the Russian Turkish border area?
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