[Dragaera] Glass Dagger Toss, Anyone?

[Howard Brazee]

Mark Mandel wrote:
> 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"
>
>   
Jim Butcher has a fantasy series (The Furies) where salt works against 
magic - someone embedded salt in his spade when the enemy was fighting.