Talk:Artifacts with Similar Properties/@comment-31772644-20170822082015

Lemme cover a few of these. First off, we have Torqumada's Torch. It creates a dounle of the victim that brurns to ash when they die, fitting the "death by burning" theme of Artie's list. Electricity can be a complicated topic as it reacts to different things, so I'll leave the rest of that section for now.

Sampson is a Biblical figure blessed with divine strength, and a part of his story involves him rampaging through a temple wielding the jawbone of a donkey. I assume the effects are activated when it's used as a weapon.

The teapot I've made a page for, and it's activated when someone drinks tea from the pot. Whoever served it can see the auras of the drinkers. I think the thimble might work in the same way, where a person can see the auras of whomever is wearing something knitted/sewn while it was worn or perhaps while it's being used. Both artifacts have links to traditionally maternal activities, sewing and brewing comforting tea, so I imagine this line of effects are more or less exclusive to kind-hearted, mostly female individuals.

The story regarding Bodiharma and living death are odd. Apparently after achieving enlightenment he began travelling and never really stopped, even after dying. So maybe wearing the slippers allows a corpse to continue shambling along after death? No real awareness, just motor function. Marie Levau was a voodoo, or more accurately vodou, priestess. There are a lot of ties to the afterlife in vodou culture, not really relating to zombies or the like. Maybe it could allow a limited communication with the desceased? The was a show I watched, tragically cut after one season, called "Constantine". One scene in particular from near the end of the run had a character reanimated witrough vodou magic and, instead of coming back to life, they were just able to talk again. Thanatos is the Greek god of death and his torch was meant to help guide the spirits of the dead to Hades. Maybe when it's lit it allows a projection of the recently deceased to appear? He's strongly associated with butterflies, maybe it could have something to do with that. Interestingly, in all of his symbology the torch is depicted as upside down, so that's something to take into account.

David is, of course, another Biblical figure famous for taking down the giant Goliath by slinging a stone directly into his temple, killing him instantly. Maybe while winding up a sling it causes the weilder to progressively grow in size and strength, translating to a more powerful launch. As for the pump... "size" is in quotations marks for a reason. John Holmes was a particular sort of enteratiner, and his pump likely only afftects a certain area of the body. *COUGHCOUGH*