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Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell
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Sergeant Shadwell, the last remaining sergeant of The Witchfinder Army, is a rather antisocial person. He contents himself on banging on the walls of The Painted Jezebel next door, calling her the Whore of Babylon, eating the Sunday lunches she fixes (from a safe distance, of course), coming up with names for new Witchfinder Army members (Sergeant Cabinet, Private Smith, etc.), drinking condensed milk (which he practically lives off of), and, of course, ridding the world of those awful witches. Actually, it's mostly that last one. So much so, actually that he checked the number of nipples Newton Pulsifer had before hiring him on as a Private. He is even known to pass over perfectly good supernatural happenings on the premise that it's just not the type of thing witches do.

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The BBC comedy sketch series Naked Video featured a hard-to-love, shabby, dishevelled and somewhat misanthropic Welsh poet called Siadwell (pronounced Shadwell). Siadwell lived in a one-room bedsit and condensed milk featured in his diet...

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