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Scythe One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450-1475) A sickle , bagging hook , reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock .
Related archaic terms are Beenderman ("Bone-man"), Scherminkel (very meager person, "skeleton") and Maaijeman ("mow-man", a reference to his scythe). [14] The concept of Magere Hein predates Christianity, but was Christianized and likely gained its modern name and features (scythe, skeleton, black robe etc.) during the Middle Ages.
A scythe (/ s aɪ ð /, rhyming with writhe) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains , before the process of threshing .
Bone: Out from Boneville is an episodic adventure game by Telltale Games. It was Telltale's first adventure game, [ 1 ] and their second game overall, following Telltale Texas Hold'em . A Mac port of the game was released on October 13, 2006, ported by Vanbrio.
If the sculpture is carved out of the bone of a Catholic man it only needs to be consecrated five times (as the bone has already been consecrated twice). To get sculptures of San La Muerte blessed, worshipers resort to subterfuge by concealing a picture of San La Muerte underneath a picture of a conventional saint.
On occasions of cold wind and other times, it can happen that one would fall and get an inexplicable leg injury. In the Shin'etsu region, a kamaitachi is said to be the work of an evil god and there is a folk belief that one would encounter calamity by stepping on a calendar.
The Backstreet Boys' "Into the Millennium" residency at Sphere in Las Vegas will celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Millennium." Everything on how to get tickets, when tour dates are and more.
The thin, replaceable blades used on the macuahuitl were easily dulled or chipped by repeated impacts on bone or wood, making artful use of the weapon critical. It takes more time to lift and swing a club than it does to thrust with a sword. More space is needed as well, so warriors advanced in loose formations and fought in single combat. [30]