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Balarao (also spelled balaraw, bararao, and bararaw), also known as "winged dagger", is a Filipino dagger used throughout the pre-colonial Philippines. It is unusually shaped, with a double-edged leaf-like blade and a finger-fitting grip consisting of two horn-like projections at the pommel and no guards.
Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book uses a jambiya knife to kill Shere Khan. Aladdin owns a jambiya left by his father, and uses it to fight Sa'Luk in the 1996 film Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Geralt of Rivia owns a dagger that resembles a jambiya in the 2007 game The Witcher. Ezio Auditore wields a jambiya in Assassin's Creed ...
T'boli and Mandaya badao daggers with sheaths in the National Museum of Anthropology An Iranun pirate from Sabah (formerly part of the Sultanate of Sulu), with a kampilan, a gunong dagger tucked in his sash, and a budjak (spear) The gunong is a dagger variant of the kalis, a Philippine sword derived from the Indonesian kris dagger. The gunong ...
The katar is a type of push dagger from the Indian subcontinent. [1] The weapon is characterized by its H-shaped horizontal hand grip which results in the blade sitting above the user's knuckles. Unique to the Indian subcontinent, it is the most famous and characteristic of Indian daggers. [2] Ceremonial katars were also used in worship. [3]
The second type was a wooden sheath, probably covered with leather. One metal plate was attached to the front of the wooden sheath. This plate was fairly flat and was heavily decorated with inlaid silver and enamel. Occasionally tin was used. The suspension rings resembled small Roman military buckles and were hinged to the sides of the sheath ...
Ottoman Kindjal. A khanjali, also known as a kindjal, is a double-edged dagger used since antiquity in the Caucasus. [1] [2] The shape of the weapon is similar to that of the ancient Roman gladius, the Scottish dirk and the ancient Greek xiphos.
The sheath always has an extra long tip, sometimes embellished with metal upholstery that can have an enlarged knob on the end. The sheath is worn on a belt around the waist and attached to the belt with a circular or square buckle or more rarely sown on. [1] The dagger's handle often indicates the social status of the person who wears it.
Sting: An Elven knife used as a sword by Bilbo, and later his nephew, Frodo. [1] Sting has the characteristic of glowing when orcs are near, thus serving as an alert to its wielder. Anglachel (Sindarin: iron-fire-star) and Anguirel (Sindarin: iron-eternal-star): Swords forged from meteoritic iron by Eöl, the dark elf. They could cleave all ...