Death's Touch Sign
The Death's Touch Sign is a hand position used in the famous "Saga of Darren Shan" series. The hand position is to take you right hand and to put it over your face so that the middle finger is on your forehead, the ring and pinky fingers are on the left side of your face, and the pointer finger and thumb are on the right side. The sign translates to, "Even in Death, may you be Triumphant." The sign is first shown in book 5 of the series, Trials of Death, when Darren must take the Trails of Initiation nicknamed the Trials of Death. Vampires throughout Vampire Mountain direct the sign to him to show that they wish him good luck. It is used by vampires throughout Vampire Mountain to show their appreciate towards a dead or no doubt "about to die" vampire.
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Famous quotes containing the words death, touch and/or sign:
“Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sleep hath its own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality.
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,—good-by,—fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)