Overview
• Material: Brass
• Length: 6"
• Diameter: ~3/4"
• Weight: 10.8 oz
• Battleworn Finish
• Made in the USA
• Ships Monday-Friday from Raleigh, North Carolina
Manually machined EDC Vampire Stake (Marlin Spike) made from solid brass.
The Noble Woodsman Vampire Stake is simple, rugged, and a mini-behemoth in the pocket. This Vampire Stake tool from the Noble Woodsman is machined from a solid piece of brass with a narrow point and battleworn finish.
Representing the souls of the restless dead, Vampires can be a force to be reckoned with. Often composed of criminals or others who had violated social norms, they fed on the life force of the living members of their community.
One way to keep a vampire in its grave was to drive a stake through its heart. The point of this was not to kill the vial monster (a vampire's already dead, after all), but rather to nail the soul into its grave. Therefore, hindering the soul and releasing the mouldering body.
Stakes were sometimes also put through the heart of witches, as in the case of Goody Cole of Hampton, New Hampshire.
Goody Cole lived in Hampton in the late 17th century, and was poor, sharp-tongued, and unpopular with her neighbors. Eventually she was found guilty of witchcraft: killing an infant with magic, causing a man to fall ill, harming various farm animals, and capsizing a boat to drown a carpenter who angered her. She spent many years jailed in Boston, and finally died in a small hut where she had been living as a ward of Hampton.
When the citizens of Hampton buried her, they put a stake through her heart. For good measure, they also attached an iron horseshoe to the stake. (In European folkore, iron has the power to stop malevolent magic.)
All Vampire Stakes & Marlin Spikes are handmade.
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Due to the inherent nature of brass and the handmade nature of this item: the patina will gradually change and the look may vary slightly from the product shown. The item may differ slightly in shape as well since we hand-make every item. However, we will keep to the general design aesthetic of each item ordered.
PLEASE NOTE:
Slight color, appearance, in the item are to be expected due to lighting.
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The Noble Woodsman is not responsible for any injury incurred by misuse of this product.
The Noble Woodsman does not offer a warranty or refund for Vampire Stakes or Marlin Spikes.