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Author: DmM

May 16th 2014 at 4:57:57 AM

* In Terry Pratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} novels, this is a running gag about Granny Weatherwax's malfunctioning broom, which needs to be moving at high speed before the magic kicks in and it can fly. We're repeatedly told that the best Dwarf engineers in the Ramtops have replaced the handle and twigs dozens of times to no avail, and confess themselves utterly flummoxed. It's never explicitly stated, but given Granny's personality and her recklessly self-centred approach to flying, it's highly possible that the problem is with her, not the broom, she just won't admit it.
** Similarly, in Discworld/TheFifthElephant, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the fabled Scone of Stone, the seat of the Low King of the Dwarves since time immemorial, is actually a cunning replica and the real one wore out years ago]]. At the end of the novel, King Rhys give Vimes a battleaxe, and says that it will be handed down in the Vimes family, sometimes needing a new blade, maybe even a new handle, but ''always the same axe that Duke Samuel was given by King Rhys'' [[spoiler: to illustrate the sentimental and symbolic value the Scone has even if it's only a plaster cast of the original]].