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[[File:Swamp.jpg|link=Magic: The Gathering|frame|Tap, Dark Ritual for Hypnotic Specter, gg?]]
{{quote|'''Westley:''' A few more steps and we'll be safe in the Fire Swamp!
'''Buttercup:''' We'll never survive!
'''Westley:''' Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
|''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}
In fiction, swamps are often portrayed as godforsaken places that no man enters willingly. When they aren't infested with undead horrors, they hide tribes of hideous frog-, lizard-, or fish-men (or possibly [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|fishlizardfrogmen]]) who slink from their half-sunken temples to grasp the unwary with their cold hands and drag them beneath the still black water. At the very least, they are the home of poisonous snakes and strange, incurable diseases. Often, there are ancient curses that cause travelers to become lost and wander the swamps forever. Will o' the Wisps (also called corpse candles and [[Ghost Lights]]) lead the unwary into quickbogs to die. For extra horror, people who get lost in the swamp may themselves [[Tragic Monster|become one of the monsters]] infesting it. Swamps are also a popular home for [[Wicked Witch|witches]], [[Hollywood Voodoo|voodoo ladies]], families of inbred cannibals, and other unsavoury types, like [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]].
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