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[-] Ashelyn 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

So it's basically one of those retractable knife toys used to "fake-stab" people but instead of being in good fun, it was used as pretext to get you convicted of being a witch and put to death. Sheesh, that's pretty depressing

[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Now that looks familar... 🤔

Fitting that the Bene Gesserit "Witches" should adopt such an implement to test their own subjects, lol.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Probably an intentional reference by Herbert

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