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I know the witch-hunts were almost our destruction but humanity has gone a long way after that
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She obviously did not and she knew the witch-hunters wouldn’t feel satisfied until there was a loss
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Sadly they were voluntary victims during the witch-hunts and they were so brave
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our island ripped apart by a witch-hunt
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He was killed in a--in a witch-hunt
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Church and witch-hunts and Holy Wars and the list goes on
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victimized by a witch-hunt of the patriarchal hegemony
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The witch-hunt was on and the cult is still growing as we read
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the McCarthyite witch-hunt that fol owed and which continues to
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And of course he was a great witch-hunter
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My father was the rich, handsome witch-hunter that saved a beautiful young lady from being sacrificed
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“Look, all witch-hunters and Council staff have the best protection the MMC can provide
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It had been a suitably miserable day as the black-clad crowd stood about a plinth, erected to commemorate the greatest witch-hunters
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Witch-hunters had come from all over Britain, and there were even those from foreign MMCs
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Just then, finally, the doors opened and the witch-hunters poured out, followed in the end by Hunter
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Several witch-hunters hung back to share a few words of encouragement, but eventually they were all gone
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If the Germans found a way to raise a Shadow, the witch could have awoken anywhere in the world; in England, alone and unprepared, relatively easy prey for the local witch-hunters…
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They were on their way to a raid, it would be Sophie’s first time coming up against witches as a witch-hunter, and typically James wasn’t happy about the idea
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“And I doubt you’ll be doing anything this time, there are more than enough higher gen witch-hunters to deal with the threat
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“Of all the witch-hunters they could’ve assigned, why that git?”
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This was the part he hated most, he reflected as the other witch-hunters disappeared into the forest, he was personally brave and would risk his life as and when required
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Out of the shadows, he rest of the witch-hunters stepped forward, guns raised
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“Stop!” Hunter shouted, furious at the witch-hunter
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” Gasped Hunter, as the witch faced the last witch-hunter blocking her escape
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“We have no intel on what will happen where, so the MMC likes its witch-hunters to be on the move, in the thick of it, so they can act immediately
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It’s not much to go on, but if all witch-hunters head to the nearest one, we’ve got more of a chance
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“Hunter, I’m a witch-hunter, I’m coming
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When they came to Astley Manor with a long list of work for the resident witch-hunters, Hunter set his mother on them; they got the hint and didn’t come back
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“It’s all your fault - you got her into witch-hunting, you were supposed to protect her
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There are a hundred other witch-hunters that can face her
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How can I turn my back on the biggest threat of our time? I’m one of the best witch-hunters out there, if I don’t stop her, who will?” Hunter argued back, logically
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The witch-hunters had been greedy and naïve in keeping these amulets - did they think they could use the stolen magic of witches somehow? Or had they never found a way to truly destroy them? It didn’t matter either way
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The witch-hunter on the other end could hardly remain calm enough to pass on the message - the impossible had happened, a witch had managed to get into and destroyed the MMC headquarters and now all bound witches in the UK were re-empowered
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The injured witch-hunters were being pulled back to relative safety, while the survivors fought desperately to keep the witches contained
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A burning block of stone suddenly flew into a dense area of witch-hunters, and there was screaming mixed with the thunder of collision
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To his right he could see a witch-hunter fall to the powerful venom, and the spiders broke through to the second line
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More gun-shots rang out from the far wing of the witch-hunters, and the plague of spiders began to abate as their creators were killed
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They had a brief chance to catch their breath, but Hunter noticed the thinning of the witch-hunter lines as casualties were pulled back
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Hunter looked about, trying to find an answer for what just happened, but the other witch-hunters appeared not to have noticed, or even affected by the odd period
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The line of tired witch-hunters wavered, and lesser gens attempted to fight the incorporeal monsters
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The storm clouds seethed and boiled and suddenly thousands of shards of ice were pelting down into the witch-hunters, cutting, slicing, blinding
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Half of the witch-hunters had been killed, the rest were sporting various degrees of injury
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After all, it was famous for housing and protecting seven generations of witch-hunters
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Others had been designated as control and communication for the remaining rabble of MMC staff and witch-hunters
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It was true, since returning to Astley Manor that morning they had been trying to locate every witch-hunter - even 1st gens
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I’ll have a couple o’ witch-hunters up there swing by her mum’s, check it out
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A witch-hunter came up, interrupting them
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The witch-hunter shuffled his papers nervously, obviously too dependent on coffee
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But what they’ll be able to do…” The witch-hunter finished, then stood there somewhat awkwardly
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” Hunter replied, then hesitated, glancing at the witch-hunter that still hovered with them
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The witch-hunter jumped was caffeine-heightened nerves
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“Astley!” A 5th gen witch-hunter called out
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Hunter looked up at the witch-hunter, but it wasn’t he that had spoken
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The last witch-hunters to stop by had been right, there was no sign of anything happening
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Hunter frowned, not overly disconcerted, witches seemed to enjoy whispering directly into the mind as a means of terrorising victims and witch-hunters alike
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They took their cue from the original woman and surrounded the two witch-hunters
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Neither witch-hunter responded, but the Shadow Witch didn’t seem to expect an answer and continued
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She sat down and the two witch-hunters’ audience was over
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It was maddening, how Hunter could walk into a room of the best witch-hunters and wave his 7th gen status, and they would usually respect, follow, obey etc
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So I planned a little sacrifice with me as the innocent victim, then I would use my ample negotiating skills to become a witch-hunter - what better way to learn about the MMC than to be part of it
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It was rather interesting to learn about what I was from a witch-hunter’s perspective
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They fear that I grew too close to you and they want proof that I can kill the best the witch-hunters have
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But they were discovered by witch-hunters and, in self-reflection saw that they had become what they most feared
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“Don’t you see? Did you never wonder what the witch-hunter generations were leading to? What you are, a 7th gen
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“They think you’re just a normal witch-hunter that I like to toy with
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Each generation of witch-hunter took them further away from their human roots
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The witch-hunter didn’t move or lower his weapon
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The witch-hunter looked uncertain, but a second armed figure moved in the darkness to their right
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“Communications have been down for two days, we’ve been struggling to track down other witch-hunters, trying to re-establish links with police and army forces
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“And we have what, fifty witch-hunters?”
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“What, with forty-three witch-hunters? Or are you suggesting that the villagers of Little Hanting join in?”
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“First of all, they aren’t witch-hunters
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The harm? He could be accused of witchcraft and cast out by the witch-hunters when they needed him most
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The villagers were gone and the only movement was that of uniformed soldiers and their witch-hunter guides
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Do you know what happens when a 7th gen witch-hunter is created? It turns out that we have evolved to be something more… gifted
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I know this sounds dodgy, but I’m not a witch and I’m still a witch-hunter, still the same guy
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Hunter watched Marks carefully, but the older witch-hunter gave nothing away with his stern expression
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The soldiers and witch-hunters alike grumbled in the cold, and even Hunter began to doubt his assumption that Sophie would come for revenge, for him
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There was a throbbing pulse of magic that raised the head of every witch-hunter
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Hunter gazed about the other witch-hunters that stood waiting in the hall for his signal
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The twenty fellow witch-hunters scrambled to their feet and followed him out of the warm Manor and into the cold, darkening evening
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They shifted so two opposing lines were formed, witches facing witch-hunters, just twenty feet apart, the Astley Estate border between them
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The witches outnumbered the witch-hunters three times over
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A gun discharged as one of the witch-hunters lost his nerve
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It spread like a blanket over the witches and witch-hunters, regardless of borders
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For years I hated the very name Astley, knowing that they were the witch-hunters that killed Sara Murray, the last Shadow Witch; and all its consequences
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Hunter had never been much of a wallower: not when the witches had killed his father; Brian; Charlotte… Hunter was a witch-hunter, as they all had been
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Hunter had thought Sophie mad, and looking for a loophole when she had sworn that he was different from his fellow witch-hunters
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It was something that Hunter, and every MMC worldwide took for granted that, in a family of witch-hunters, each generation would become more adept
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But this 1st gen witch-hunter was the truest and bravest person that Hunter knew
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After the witch-hunter hooligans converted that into a war room, Mrs Astley resigned to her rooms and refused to come out unless absolutely necessary
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Aside from the forty-seven witch-hunters that were in the battle, we’ve had others making their way here over the weeks
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It was crazy – Anthony Marks was twice Hunter’s age; Hunter had grown up hearing nothing but positive accounts of this witch-hunter from both his father and his trainer, Brian Lloyd
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Witch-hunters need somewhere safe to stay
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persecution nearing that of the Salem witch-hunts
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Although nobody knew they were gay, this ruthless witch-hunt of gays was very frightening
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For example, if in our “now”, owing to some extraordinary dramatic circumstances (for example, an impact of strong planetary cataclysms, global nuclear wars), SFUURMM-Forms typical of the Middle Ages were intensively imposed on “people”, then eventually, in rotation Cycles of the development of the present civilized society, as a result of such low-quality refocusings of the majority of Collective Intelligence Forms, scenarios that include cruel practices used during the Inquisition or “witch-hunts” would have appeared, and all new and progressive trends would have been blindly negated again
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They had been tortured in the most brutal way possible to insure their silence in the witch-hunt propaganda trial assembled by the Allies of Nuremberg which was used to demonize the Nazi regime and all the German people, and thus justify all the atrocities of the allies
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It should also be noted that this is not about a ‘witch-hunt’ vilifying those who support, follow and/ or practice the different sectors of Future Telling, and Astrology but an objective, logical, and scientific exploration and deconstruction of such parapsychology
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Reformation (The Crusades, bloody Mary, witch-hunts, and much more)