Stick-fighting
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Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting, is a variety of martial arts which use blunt, hand-held "sticks" for fighting, most typically a simple, non-lethal, wooden staff or baton. Schools of
Cane and stick fencing in French encyclopedia.
An artwork depicting stick fighting
Engravings at the Abusir necropolis showing stick fighting
Egyptian men from Upper Egypt performing Tahtib, a traditional stick-fighting game and folk art practiced mainly in southern Egypt.
Shillelagh
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A shillelagh is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top. It is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore.
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…canne de combat or la canne, England's single stick, Portugal's jogo do pau, Poland's palcat, the juego del palo of the Canary Islands, Ireland's shillelagh, Italy's scherma di bastone. Giuseppe Cerri's 1854 manual Trattato teorico e pratico della scherma di bastone is influenced by masters of the Italian…
Assorted shillelaghs
Oaken shillelaghs in various stages of completion
The Jeweled Shillelagh