The Demon Knife of Supernatural: what is it and how does it work

[@Bardim18]

In a deleted scene from season 6's "Frontierland", Samuel Colt is shown to have the knife on his belt, implying that he's the one who made it, just like the Colt. That's indicated by the fact that, it makes the demons that are killed by it "flicker" just like the Colt's bullets do.

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

Or he analyzed the knife, learned how it works, and improved on it to make the Colt.

[@Ash-Winchester]

@@ArakkoaChronicles Interesting. So if that was case, do you think there's a possibility the demon killing knife could replicated in a process similarly to the colt bullet creation ritual?

[@thallespires3966]

@@Ash-Winchester Maybe ashes of a Phoenix was used to create the knife along with de metal of it

[@radagast7200]

I always thought Crowley made those weapons while he was a lowely crossroads demon. The same way he gets other hunters to work for him, he at one point made deals with other hunters in the old west and gets them to take out his competition. It's why he understands the weapons and is able to make ammo for the colt. The line about the "Alamo" makes me think the knife was first given to Jim Bowie to fight Santa Anna and his demon army. And the same night, he powers up one of Colt's guns for a similar reason. Its how he became the King of the Crossroads. We need a third weapon though, to round it out. Maybe he made a similar deal to another gunsmith... maybe one Oliver Winchester? That would make an awesome spin off... Bowie, Colt and Winchester... running around killing demons and monsters in the old west. And get an answer as to why Colt built the railroad devils trap. They would have to use the Beastie Boys song though... "here's a little story I've got to tell, about three bad bothers you know so well..."

[@Bardim18]

@radagast7200 In season 1 John Winchester explicitly states that the gun was made by Samuel Colt, that's why it's named after him. As for the knife, like I said in my comment above, a deleted scene shows Colt possessing the knife. This was meant to imply that he made it too, until season 13, where the boys' grandfather revealed it was made by the Kurdish people. I guess that Colt must've found the knife and studied it so that he creates the gun and the bullets.

[@Archiver_Studio]

The blade is magical in nature do to its ability to kill Demons meaning it can definitely kill basically anything supernatural but weaker than Demons like Werewolves or even Vampires probably A Rugaru isn't very unusual to be murdered by a weapon solely made to kill Demons Plus it was Purgatory and everything in Purgatory has the same fatal weaknesses

[@Twisty._.]

It really was a while since I watched Supernatural. I thought Deamon knife was ussual weapon of deamons. Thanks for new info

[@SaftonYT]

Bonus points for including that clip from Magicians. Absolutely fantastic show. I also came up with a very nerdy bit of background lore/headcanon for the creation of the "Kurdish demon-killing knife" in a Supernatural-themed RP that I run with my girlfriend and a few friends. It was really fun trying to hash it all out.

[@AshRaf-to5gu]

Maybe the simplest answer to why powerful demons survived is their strength as every demon that survived was far more powerful than a regular demon. The language could me the angelic language they mentioned in the show a couple of times, which gives it its powers or the steel itself is some sort of rare holy material.

[@omnigod7131]

Enochian

[@jeremycolon7337]

My guess is that it was produced by witches or maybe even lucifer as he doesn’t care for demons and probably made it for his own second in command as a symbol status. Maybe in season 3, Ruby got the blade from lillith who probably got it from Lucifer for being his second and the one to break the final seal, it would need something potentially to kill her (if sam didn’t juice up)

[@davidalves31057]

Probably made by kurd witches...

[@codyburgett7962]

I’m so excited to be apart of this channel of yours from the ground floor, love your other channel, hope this one blows up

[@sheadreamz]

A theory I had for the demon blade was each symbol on the blade was a representation of each zodiac sign.

[@MattRumm]

I wonder if Lucifer made the blade specifically to torture demons. He always despised demons, and he knew how they were made better than anyone. Somehow he knew what the colt was after being shot with it once, even tho he was in the cage when it was made. Archangels got some know-how...

[@grantpflum6844]

We actually don't know what the limits on the knife are. It was never stated in the show that was the case and we do see it used on other creatures. We just mainly see it used on demons because most other things in Supernatural have a easy way to kill them already.

[@omnigod7131]

We do know a limit. It can't kill angels. That's why they use angel blades because it can kill both angels and demons, not to mention that lilith stated that angel blades were an upgrade over the demon killing knife, and the Winchesters acknowledged that it was an upgrade as well.

[@robkerr3304]

Keep making videos. Love the ones you have done so far.

[@vladtheinhaler9744]

yo, just found this channel, when i thought of rewatching SPN again :D great videos man, keep it up

[@markredden311]

I sense a "The Colt" video in the future.😁😁😁 Please do it.

[@antiker_Lucifer]

The language on the knife exists in reality, but not on earth. It‘s the native language of the demons, it‘s „Lillim“, the language was named after the first demon. The symbols mean something like „free us from the devils followership and army“

[@johnwagner2049]

Samuel Colt likely rebuilt the Kurd knife into what we have on the show which explains it's bowie styling. It certainly isn't an ancient Kurdish design by that point. That would have led to making the pistol. Ruby could have gotten the knife at any point after that or even been the one to make a deal with Colt explaining how it worked in order to spare her life. Since the knife is generic named, Henry said "a" not "the", there should be more kurd demon killing knives, although not looking the same, somewhere out there.

[@radagast7200]

I just want to point out that in one episode, Sam is able to wield Mjlnir, Thor's hammer, and destroys whatever that was that bought it. (Im not sure if that was supposed to be Thor... though we see Odin and Baldur in that episode, and Loki and three of his children children in another, we never see Thor...) And then it just disappears. He never uses it again... presumably that was a very powerful weapon. We dont know if he left it there, or stashed it away, or what... but he ended the episode with it.

[@MereelSkirata]

Or the Kurds melted down an Angel Blade and recast it into the knife and the symbols mean nothing.

[@90CJk]

Except Dean stabbed Castiel with it. And he didn’t die. Any angelic metal melted down into a weapon still works on angels. As Crowley’s bullets killed angels.

[@allsupsons9514]

He stabbed cass in the heart if it was an angel blade it would have killed him on the spot lol

[@MereelSkirata]

Oh yeah, well... Fuck. @@allsupsons9514

[@KanionDane]

Doesn’t add up though, they tried the demon knife on when Cass first showed up, if it was made by angel blade cass would have died

[@MereelSkirata]

@@KanionDane I mean technically Chuck could have been protecting him. Chuck only let Castiel die at certain points to enhance the drama of his story.

[@Vyperus69]

My theory has always been that Azazel created the knife, in the ancient texts of the Judo-Christian religions Azazel was one of the Angels who fell with Lucifer/Sataniel and was originally the Armorer of Heaven, which would also tie into him trying to create a Super weapon/perfect host for Lucifer out of a human and into the original fight with the Darkness and God/The Angels. It has also been my theory that the 4 Princes were all fallen angels hence why all of them have Yellow eye's instead of Black or white.

[@Wishdreamerx]

I would TOTALLY watch Supernatural Kill Counts, definitely!

[@Ash-Winchester]

I got my demon killing knife off of fire and steel, and it looks a lot like the one you got. The handle is a slightly lighter shade of brown, but it's the same shape.

[@alexhulea2735]

Maybe having a possible link to the Mark Of Cain (which is supposed to be always visible, so anyone that sees it knows him and knows the consequences of attacking Cain) gives it an extra 'something else'. Since The Mark is supposed to return every attack sevenfold, maybe the knife kills demons by using their own powers

[@Harkeilla]

You need to do a video on the angel blade next, since demon and angel are opposites and you cannot have one without the other. Or just do a video on each of the weapons - demon blade, angel blade, the colt et cetera One mistake you made is that you said cain wasn't affected because he held the mark, but then you said a few minutes later that lucifer was the first to have the mark, yet lucifer WAS able to be killed by the blade, as had been shown in the series.

[@SellavinAtoms]

Cool

[@troesler81]

I was thinking about that top rune mirroring the mark and one of the symbols is also on the devil traps

[@jtb6737]

I know this is all fantasy, but think of the blade like an intelligent magic item from D&D. It could be uploading information to Dean without his knowledge.

[@edwardness7497]

sometimes the 'special method' of killing things seems to be for dramatic effect... why doesn't beheading a werewolf, or a Rugaru, or a lot of 'humanoid' based monsters work... Leviathans are the only ones who seem, accepting, of a beheading, so long as their head doesn't travel too far... it goes back to bobby's use of a wood chipper to kill a monster with a unique af killing method... Winchesters should tow a wood chipper everywhere, just in case...

[@thejokerz9751]

I think it's a mix of multiple theories that you can put together like the Virgin sacrifice combined with multiple forms of magic just to make this one knife

[@samsonoh1352]

I believe the blade was human kinds first attempt creating a weapon with the soul purpose of killing demons and things that go bump on the night using metallurgy of angelic and or demon origin

[@andrewrobbins1060]

Way out of the box thought, but what if the knife handle is made from a unicorn horn and the symbols on the blade harness the purity of the unicorn itself making it a weapon of 'pure goodness' that can kill evil...

[@AndrewEdmondson.2115]

That would be the case if it was the Gravity Falls show instead of

[@darkwolf4830]

The mark of Cain on the show is the shape of a jawbone or the first blade

[@freddiemolinajr.8397]

good video the demon knife is awesome

[@stepanovicboro]

9:15 what happens if you slice the black smoke as a demon is smoking out of the host?

[@TiaanKruger]

did they ever try to stab an angel with the demon blade? my head cannon, once we learned of angel blades, was that it was probably a "reforged" angel blade

[@AndrewEdmondson.2115]

Yes when they first met Castiel, Dean didn’t know who that was so he stabbed him with it and it did nothing

[@silvertongue.242_99]

Unlike demon knife but you get use to angel blade seem like a more useful knife since you can kill both angels and demons with. It cool knife tho

[@gabrieladerre2862]

8:30 Theres not thousands of adult aged virgins any where close to me! And I live in a city! I wish they'd implemented a few other sacred relic weapons, such as The Sword of Saint Joan of Arc! That sounds like that should be able to kill demons!

[@johnweems4586]

I remember thinking it would have been cool if they'd said it was Jim Bowie's knife. But they didn't.

[@alltheworldsastage4785]

Alastair doesn't have immunity to the knife, Lilith doesn't even have immunity, she fled like a bitch when Sam was about to stab her.

[@clarencementor5997]

BRO A SUPERNATURAL KILL COUNT WOULD BE CRAZYYY😭

[@PzY-Reviews]

Can we get a video on the french mistakr

[@Gioppdumister]

9:03 Abaddon answered this question. Nothing happens to the demon and the host dies. Cain tried to kill abaddon while she was possessing his wife and only Collette was harmed

[@re-imagination6567]

No, abandon already left the body that why it didn’t work

[@madmachanicest9955]

it could just be an angel blade that was damaged and reforged into a knife by so hunter in the bast and then bast down millions of times like the wincester

[@user-gz8ij3xe3x]

Its mysterious knife for Kurds

[@permeus2nd]

4:29 every time I hear that name I think of Scooby Doo

[@joemc1974]

Maybe Lucifer made the knife. Weird I know, but maybe he made it for himself to protect himself from demons that might want to try and kill him and take over. Then he somehow lost it along the way.

[@skannerz22]

Stabbing an angel with demon knife techniquely should make the angel more pure

[@jacobweatherford4696]

Honestly i think the demon killing knife was made using a hand of god.

[@frankiehernandez6232]

With each demon kill you need to add human with it because it kills the host as well

[@BirDLaw-dh1di]

Love the content

[@leedean1696]

If the same carvings were on a blade made of vibranium or adamantium, would the weapon kill a demon?

[@permeus2nd]

5:10 it looks like it could be based on Hebrew? It’s not any of the scripts I have seen before in real Magick.

[@edwinjusto5739]

Actually there are at least 3 white eyed demons, i can though understand how you forgot that hallowen demon from that 1 episode

[@MichaelMengo]

Runes, the answer in Supernatural is always runes

[@arrownoir]

It’s Ruby’s ace.

[@the_orange_shepherd6938]

I like the idea that the knife is the “instant Mac and cheese” for demon slaying. “Easy Slay” hmmm hmmm good.

[@wayne5553]

I own a real one.

[@coyork15]

Demon Tablet writing?

[@spade52287]

I really like your videos but this one seemed like you were higighting very specific parts of the topic and completely avoiding others. It seems to me like you had other things to do other than this video and you sacrificed detail and time to get through it. I think you could do much better

[@ferbatech8754]

I am kurd🇹🇯✌🔪

[@mandamouzer5053]

#plot device

[@gadam2btk]

You clearly do not speak demonic

[@user-rx7pd4zc2p]

lol

[@lukeharbolt7681]

James janice treats lots of his fans like shit! Just saying he was really rude and closed minded i haven't listen to him in years over that. Cool channel but im good