Costume knife

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Folklore knife used as part of traditional costumes often more than jewelry object because as use knife or gun .

In Bavaria and Austria, such knives are also known as stilettos or "stilettos" and usually have a stag horn handle . Handles made from deer runs are rarer. These traditional knives also include so-called snack knives, which are often equipped with a bottle opener .

Hunters, whose traditional hunting knives are similar to these traditional knives , call them " Nicker " because they are used to nod down the game - a quick stab between the cervical vertebrae, whereby the spinal cord is severed. The deer catcher was also originally used for hunting and is now mainly used for representative purposes.

A Scottish traditional knife is the Sgian dubh .

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