In Popular Culture
In the TV series, Reaper, season 1, episode 15 ("Coming to Grips"), Bert "Sock" Wysocki pretends to be Duncan MacLeod as he wields the scythe 'vessel' they are going to use to capture the escaped soul; presumably because - like swords in the Highlander series - it could be used to decapitate someone.
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