Sickle - Other Uses

Other Uses

• The sickle is used as part of the well known symbol of the hammer and sickle, which is the symbol of Communism or Revolutionary Socialism. The sickle represents the agricultural working class or peasantry in this symbol.
• The emblem of the Grim Reaper - The personification of Death is sometimes portrayed as carrying a sickle rather than the more traditional scythe.
• Sickle is a fictional unit of money in the Harry Potter series.
• SS-25 Sickle is the NATO reporting name for the RT-2PM Topol intercontinental ballistic missile.
• Tacitus reports that golden sickles were used in Druidic rituals.
• Paulus Hector Mair's Manuscript Dresd. C 93 includes a section regarding the martial application of the sickle.
• In the movie The Hunger Games, the character Thresh uses a sickle as his main weapons, as he hails from District 11, where sickles are used as everyday tools in the harvesting of agricultural goods.
• Sickles are the primary weapon of choice of the antagonists in the Children Of The Corn series