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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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 21 hours ago

Probably an intentional reference by Herbert