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Swatton is a self-educated blacksmith and a trained jeweller. [2] When he was young, he used to cut gems and later expanded his skillset to include silversmithing. When he was 15, he met Jody Samson who had worked on the Conan the Barbarian film, and started to swap gems with Samson for knives. Unable to afford a knife, Swatton made one out of ...
According to George Monbiot, the blacksmith is a motif of folklore throughout (and beyond) Europe associated with malevolence (the medieval vision of Hell may draw upon the image of the smith at his forge), and several variant tales tell of smiths entering into a pact with the devil to obtain fire and the means of smelting metal. [8]
Smithy is also a documented nickname for a number of notable people and fictional characters: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), Australian pioneer aviator; Ian Smith (1919–2007), Prime Minister of Rhodesia and World War II Royal Air Force pilot; W. G. G. Duncan Smith (1914–1996), World War II flying ace
Les Forgerons (also known as The Blacksmiths) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
Hephaestus is the Olympian Gods' blacksmith whose history is largely the same as his mythological counterpart. [1] Post-Crisis, Hephaestus forged Wonder Woman's golden Lasso of Truth and bracelets. [2] In The New 52, Hephaestus is assisted by a group of laborers who were abandoned male children from Themyscira. Wonder Woman attempts to release ...
Kaveh the Blacksmith (Persian: کاوه آهنگر, romanized: Kāveh Āhangar, IPA: [kʰɒːˈve ʔɒːɦæŋˈɡæɹ] ⓘ) [1] [2] is a figure in Iranian mythology who leads an uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahāk. His story is narrated in the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran , by the 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi.
A blacksmith threatens to deflower (take the virginity of) a lady, who vows to keep herself a maiden. A transformation chase ensues, differing in several variants, but containing such things as she becomes a hare, and he catches her as greyhound, she became a duck and he became either a water dog or a drake. In the Child version of the ballad ...