Re: Witchcraft and Swashbuckling
"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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