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How do you even treat a cut like that?
Its a horrible place to get stitches.
Forget about holding a wand.
Oh, thats the other ridiculous thing: These gashes always disappear without even a scratch.
Never in the next episode nay, the nextscene are these magic practitioners even sporting a Band-Aid.
They give up their blood and its gone.
The crazy thing is, this is not a new trope.
Palm slashing for blood magic is so common, it even has its own page onTV Tropes.
We see it inPractical Magic.
It happens twice inPirates of the Caribbean.
If its not inThe Craft,then I will be a Wicked Witchs Flying Monkeys Uncle.
Its not just magic that causes people to commit ungodly acts with a blade, though.
What about those characters who make a blood oath or do some sort of blood brothers pact?
The kids in last yearsItremakeall slice themselves with the fist-over-blade technique at the very end of the movie.
Why dont we question this very particular and very weird trope?
Cant characters start carving up their forearms or something instead?
Or maybe even the inside of the thigh?
Has anyone in real life ever actually done this?
