Carlo Fantom (died December 1643) was a "remarkable"[1] Croat mercenary in the English Civil War who had the reputation of being impervious to bullets and is quoted as saying "I care not for your Cause; I come to fight for your halfe-crown and your handsome women.
Initially serving in Arthur Goodwin's regiment of horse, where he was valued by the Earl of Essex for training cavalrymen how to fight on horseback.
According to an anecdote recorded in John Aubrey's Brief Lives, he was shot at close range by Colonel Robert Pye but remained unscathed, returning the bullets to the colonel with the words "Here, take you bullets again", and later explaining to a friend that his body could not be pierced by bullets due to a herbal treatment received as a child.
He was reportedly hanged at Bedford for raping a woman, while the army was marching to relieve Gainsborough.
[4] He is a primary antagonist in the Fiskardo's War series of historical fiction books by J.C.