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  • Being “pointed” with the “death-bone” ritually kills the candidate.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Being “pointed” with the “death-bone” ritually kills the candidate.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Being “pointed” with the “death-bone” ritually kills the candidate.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • While Wylo slumbered and slept the malicious sorcerer directed with every atom of fervour he possessed the grisly death-bone towards him from the distance of half a mile.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • The wizard watches, and if no untoward symptoms are exhibited he takes into his confidence a friend, and this candid friend tells the inflicted one that he must be ill and dying, for the death-bone has been pointed at him and has done its worst.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • How was it possible to live without his precious blood, now sealed up in the death-bone?

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • The death-bone was slowly but implacably doing its office.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • With his chin on his left shoulder and his right hand still retaining the string of the death-bone, he had died as unconscious of the hand of the artist as the artist had been primarily of his wizardry.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Ridicule is but a slight shaft to employ against any one who may retaliate with so potent a weapon as the death-bone.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • As he pointed the death-bone towards the camp where, as he supposed, Wylo rested, that hero cast his spear.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

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