Interestingly, the capotain historically lacked buckles or other accents like this raven skull, but it definitely looks cooler this way!
Often associated with the capotain is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical and usually black “sugarloaf” hat, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe. Also commonly called a Pilgrim hat, due to its association with English settlers of the 1620s, particularly the Puritan movement, from which the apparel gained its cultural association with the prosecution of witches due to events like the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s and real-life figures such as the self-proclaimed “Witchfinder General” Matthew Hopkins. Further popularized by various works of fiction such as Warhammer Fantasy and Solomon Kane, the hat has become the iconic silhouette of fantasy witch hunters.
A Witch Hunter from Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Vincent Price as the Witchhunter General, and The Puritan statue by Augustus St. Gaudens.
