Witchcraft and Swashbuckling

sieurin · 02-14-2010, 06:10 AM

The "Great Witch Hunt" (which, to quote Ken Hite "never really happened") was between early 15th and late 18th century. Same period as Swashbucklers. The only swashbuckling novel I can remember where it is an issue is the Swedish Freebooter on the Baltic by Viktor Rydberg, in which the mysterious hero also is an alchemist and which has a sideplot with a fanatical Lutheran priest killing people for imagined witchcraft when they are really just people who knows some medicine, y'know standard plot A. But Rydberg hat some major hate for established religion...

However, its the same historical period and involves the same peoples. Should work with no problems, as they said on Rescue Rangers...

Erik

02-14-2010, 06:10 AM	#3
sieurin Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: The armpit of the Icegiant, Sweden	Re: Witchcraft and Swashbuckling The "Great Witch Hunt" (which, to quote Ken Hite "never really happened") was between early 15th and late 18th century. Same period as Swashbucklers. The only swashbuckling novel I can remember where it is an issue is the Swedish Freebooter on the Baltic by Viktor Rydberg, in which the mysterious hero also is an alchemist and which has a sideplot with a fanatical Lutheran priest killing people for imagined witchcraft when they are really just people who knows some medicine, y'know standard plot A. But Rydberg hat some major hate for established religion... However, its the same historical period and involves the same peoples. Should work with no problems, as they said on Rescue Rangers... Erik