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classic tabletop game) features a class called witch hunters. Their cosmetic appearance and attitudes borrow heavily from the time period and events (such as the obvious "Puritan" Theme and humorous references to some of the trials). Just for information's sake I'd like to find a place to put all of this. Now I would fully understand anyone who objects to these being put on this page, as neither directly reference the Salem Witch Trials, they merely use a lot of the culture present during the Salem Witch Trials. Now if anybody found my argument in error, or if there already are places that state these points, I apologize for wasting anyone's time. At any rate consider this food for thought.
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about the identity of the illustrators. I'm not sure if this is the correct place to be putting them, but I think they are important because many of these are reproduced a lot, and their sources aren't always given. I'd like to set the thumbnails up in a gallery, once I have a sufficient number of them, and would appreciate some help doing that from anyone who has more experience in page formatting than I.
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Workshop's Warhammer Table top game features an entire race/faction rich with the culture and heavy influences of the Salem witch Trials. EA Mythic's Warhammer Online (An online MMORPG spinoff of the
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