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Is this a dagger which I see before me?

The handle toward my hand?

Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Ought thou not fatal vision sensible to feeling as to sight,

or art thou but a dagger of the mind,

a false creation proceeding from the heat of rest brain?

I see thee yet in form as palpable as this which now I draw.

Thou marshals me the way that I was going,

and such an instrument I was to use.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick.

In today's episode, and likely a follow-up episode, I believe, we're going to be discussing daggers.

But not just your common everyday daggers and dirks, like I know, you know, most of you are carrying around.

But no, we're going to be busting out some awesome plus two and plus three daggers with all sorts of sacred, sacrificial, historically or culturally significant connotations.

As is often the case with these multi-part explorations, we're just going to kind of open the dagger drawer here.

We're going to pull some out and see what we learn, see what we discover.

Not entirely sure what all the connections are necessarily going to be, but I think we're going to have some interesting artifacts to discuss here.

Were you inspired to do this topic because of recent events in your D&D campaign?

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