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For nine whole nights Odin hung in a windy tree, self-wounded with his spear, while "I peered downward/ I caught the runes/ Learned them weeping;/ Thence I fell down."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hunting with the blow-reed must be long practised in order to acquire dexterity in its use, and great caution is requisite to avoid being self-wounded by the small sharp arrows.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina