Thursday, 27 March 2025

About Navajas

 I blogged last year about the navaja, this Spanish knife that can be used as a weapon. Maybe it is its main utility. I have been fascinated by it since, well, since a long time. A morbid, sinister fascination, I must confess. I always thought it could be one great weapon for a character in a crime fiction story. Well, I recently stumbled upon this short YouTube video about navajas. And well, boy is the navaja one nasty weapon! I mean, I knew it already, but seeing one like this, of this size especially, it just makes me think if I ever write a story featuring it, it has to be used by a villain. And a borderline psychotic one at that. Because that is one vicious looking knife.

1 comment:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

You've taught me something new! In the opera "Carmen," when Don José attacks Escamillo in the mountains, I understand now that he uses a Navaja knife. And that's probably the same knife he uses to kill Carmen too, now that I think of it.