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:
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master—so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil—so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds.
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o’er dusted;
The present eye praises the present object.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If we define a sign as an exact reference, it must include symbol because a symbol is an exact reference too. The difference seems to be that a sign is an exact reference to something definite and a symbol an exact reference to something indefinite.”
—William York Tindall (1903–1981)