spancel

Katharine Tynan’s “The Death Spancel and Others” is characteristically elegant, as well as an important work of literary recovery.

The way to use a Spancel was this.

It was called the Spancel —after the rope with which domestic animals were hobbled —and there were several of them in the secret coffers of the Old Ones.

Queen Morgause stood in the moonlight, drawing the Spancel through her fingers.

Perhaps the Spancel had a strength in it Perhaps it was because she was twice his age, so that she had twice the power of his weapons.