Comment on During the 17th century Europeans constructed cool but unpractical weapons to use as diplomatic gifts.

• Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What i wanted to say is: In some cultures “gifting” an axe is a declaration of war.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In my family there’s a tradition that if you give a gift of a blade, you have to make the recipient pay a penny for it. Might be related somehow.

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    • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s an old superstition that giving a knife as a gift will sever your relationship.

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      • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s funny because I’ve cut things off with people and didn’t do the symbolic knife gift, and they keep bugging me. And then the one time I accidentally leave a knife behind at a friend’s, suddenly there’s a definite distance between us and things die off organically. Interesting coincidence, can definitely see how this superstition came to be.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this one of those cultures?

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    • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Regency-era Austria or 4chan’s /pol/ board?

      (In either case, no.)

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