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Originally Posted by JLV
That's all very well for a Napoleonic to post-Napoleonic world, where cold steel confronts hot lead; but in medieval terminology there was a more specific meaning to it, and it was "cold iron" then. According to several medieval sources, "cold iron" was a sovereign counter to some forms of witchcraft and Magick, and certain monsters of legend...
Now the question becomes; "why is that?"
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Yes, I seem to recall that being mentioned in the sci-fi classic “Quatermass and the Pit” (aka “Five Million Years to Earth”).