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Sandra · by **Sandra** on Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:07 am

Finger blade

Zetascair20086 · by **Zetascair20086** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:55 am

Kinda feels familar. Do you feel it was from ancient Greece in Alexander's time?

Sandra · by **Sandra** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:53 am

No - someone brought this up on the Coffey board. Any time, any place, if it looks familiar, let me know...

pjt · by **pjt** on Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:46 pm

I think I recall a variation worn by mandarin chinese. I also think there's a babylonian version for some reason. The variation being the groove fits the finger and the point extends beyond the end of the finger. I'm looking around for examples but haven't found anything specific so far.

Sandra · by **Sandra** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:25 am

Peter, that's what I thought - Babylonian. That's my background, and it is familiar to me. I'll pass the possibility along to the person who dreamed of this. Thanks!

pjt · by **pjt** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:23 am

I think the purpose was to protect the (excessively long) fingernail from being damaged or more specifically broken, at least in China. I think I've seen it in movies somewhere. Didn't Chinese concubines let their fingernails grow so they could retain an unusual degree of sensitivity in their fingertips?

I think we should all have a moment of silent thanks for nail clippers. :twisted:

I've given myself a better idea for looking it up. I'll post anything relevant I can dig up.

anthropologically

Peter

Sandra · by **Sandra** on Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:48 am

In this case, the person recalling it thinks it's a blade used to drink the blood of a sacrificial victim, but I think she is mixing some ideas from dreams up with memory. Not sure yet - we'll see what pops up. Thanks!

Peter, check for a pm...

Zetascair20086 · by **Zetascair20086** on Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:21 am

I think I've seen it in movies somewhere.

In this case, the person recalling it thinks it's a blade used to drink the blood of a sacrificial victim, but I think she is mixing some ideas from dreams up with memory.

I think I saw a scene like that in a movie too. I'd agree with the sacrificial offering. I think I saw that in a movie involving Satanism where a razor finger was used to drain blood from the neck. It could be Babylonian in that regard.

douglisa · by **douglisa** on Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:11 am

I think the movie had Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
I was googling and found this image. I have no idea what period it is from as the site does not say.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... 7%26sa%3DG

douglisa · by **douglisa** on Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:21 am

Look for the ring in frame 1:32.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bCWoF89ZA

I think this may be the part we are recalling. But the ring is different from the image the person is recalling.

Hope this helped.

Notorious_Gossip · by **Notorious_Gossip** on Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:26 pm

I was rummaging around on Wikipedia looking for info on human sacrifice in the various pre-columbian cultures and ran across a reference in the entry on the Olmecs to their practice of Bloodletting, that led me to an entry referencing the Mayan practice of the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec#Bloo ... _sacrifice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletti ... esoamerica

Could the item be a bloodletter from pre-columbian mesoamerica?

Phoenix

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