Is this one of those cultures?
What i wanted to say is: In some cultures “gifting” an axe is a declaration of war.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
egrets@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Regency-era Austria or 4chan’s /pol/ board?
(In either case, no.)
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.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s an old superstition that giving a knife as a gift will sever your relationship.
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.