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Pigsticking is a form of boar hunting done by individuals, or groups of spearmen on foot or on horseback using a specialized boar spear. The boar spear was sometimes fitted with a cross guard to stop the enraged animal driving its pierced body further down the shaft in order to attack its killer before dying. In India, pigsticking was popular ...
Boar spear head, c. 1430, length 42 centimeters (17 in). A boar spear is a spear used for boar hunting.It is relatively short and heavy and has two "lugs" or "wings" on the spearsocket behind the blade, which act as a barrier to prevent the spear from penetrating too deeply into the quarry where it might get stuck or break, and to stop an injured and furious boar from working its way up the ...
A bear or boar spear from Germany or Austria, c. 1425-50 Bear hunt. A bear spear was a medieval type of spear used in hunting for bears and other large animals. The sharpened head of a bear spear was enlarged and usually took the form of a bay leaf. Right under the head there was a short crosspiece that helped fix the spear in the body of an ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds a 16th-century combination weapon in its armaments collection. The weapon is an 89 3/4 inch boar spear with two wheellock pistol barrels fused to both flat sides of the spear's head; the intent of this design was to provide the wielder with the extra stopping power of two .41 caliber musket balls that could be fired at targets out of the reach of the spear.
A sibyna (Ancient Greek: Σιβύνη and Συβίνη and Συβήνη and Σιβύνιον and Ζιβύνη) was a type of spear [1] [2] [3] [4] used for hunting or ...
The head of an earspoon, showing the spearhead and the ears. The Bohemian earspoon (German Böhmischer Ohrlöffel [1] or Knebelspiess, Czech ušatá sudlice [2]) is a polearm featuring a long, broad, socketed spearhead with two out-turned lugs (sharply bent hooks, straight spikes, or triangular guards) [1] at the base of the head, forming a guard similar to that of a boar spear.
A sticking knife usually consists of a double edge pointed blade approximately six inches long. [1] Blades are traditionally made of high carbon steel (such as 1095). Handles are simple, consisting usually of two hardwood scales riveted through the full, flat blade tang. Sticking knives generally lack any kind of guard.
"The third gift — an enormous hammer" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. Gullinbursti and Frey, 1901 painting by Johannes Gehrts.. Gullinbursti (), meaning "Gold Mane" or "Golden Bristles") is a boar in Norse mythology.