COLD STEEL Bad Axe W/Hardwood Handle

The typical use for an axe is to split wood and chop down trees, but in the past they have been used for war, like the Neolithic and later battle-axe, the hurlbat, and throwing axe. IN folklore, stone axes were sometimes believed to be thunderbolts and were used to guard buildings against lighting, as, mythically, lightning never hits the same place twice. This has caused some skewing of axe distributions. Steel axes were important in superstitions as well. A thrown axe could keep off a hailstorm, sometimes an axe was placed in the crops with the cutting edge to the skies to protect the harvest against bed weather. An upright axe buried under the sill of a house would keep off witched, while an axe under the bed would assure male offspring.