[Dragaera] Glass Dagger Toss, Anyone?

[Mark Mandel]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Ken Koester
<kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov>wrote:

> Yes, and eye surgeons used to use obsidian knives.  And Faye Dunnaway as
> Milady had a rather nasty acid-filled pair in =The Three/Four Musketeers=.
>  But these, obviously, are not the reference. . . .
>
> Snarkhunter
>

So did the Aztecs. (Son was telling us over dinner the other night about
that day's history class.) The conquistadores were rather surprised at some
of their uses. Before a battle, they would see the enemy warriors repeatedly
pressing down on rocks with the butt of their spears. "What are they DOING?
... ¡Ayyyy!"

They had a weapon, whose name I forget, with a lot of obsidian flakes set in
a row along a stout stick. (Think of a glass saw.) A warrior could behead a
horse in battle with this thing. "¡¡¡Dios mí---!!! argghhhhhh"

Mark A. Mandel, proprietor, Cracks and Shards
http://www.cracksandshards.com
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