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Swords Against Wizardry
by Fritz Leiber
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Copyright (c)1968 by Fritz Leiber


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*I. In the Witch's Tent*
The hag bent over the brazier. Its upward-seeking gray fumes interwove
with strands of her downward-dangling, tangled black hair. Its glow showed her
face to be as dark, jagged-featured, and dirty as the new-dug root-clump of a
blackapple tree. A half century of brazier heat and smoke had cured it as
black, crinkly, and hard as Mingol bacon.
Through her splayed nostrils and slack mouth, which showed a few brown
teeth like old tree stumps irregularly fencing the gray field of her tongue,
she garglingly inhaled and bubblingly expelled the fumes.
Such of them as escaped her greedy lungs tortuously found their way to
the tent's saggy roof, resting on seven ribs down-curving from the central
pole, and deposited on the ancient rawhide their tiny dole of resin and soot.
It is said that such a tent, boiled out after decades or preferably centuries
of use, yields a nauseous liquid which gives a man strange and dangerous
visions.
Outside the tent's drooping walls radiated the dark, twisty alleys of