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* The split-a-piece-of-silk variant appears in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', when a samurai attempts to intimidate Cohen the Barbarian.

* In ''[[Water Margin (Literature)|Water Margin]]'', Yang Zhi, one of the novel's heroes, is forced to sell his [[Ancestral Weapon|family heirloom of a sword]] in the street. When confronted by a drunken local bully who demnds a dirt cheap price, he tells the latter that the sword is capable of "cut metals like mud, slice through hair by the merest touch, and kill people with no blood on the blade". {{spoiler|It's all true, and Yang Zhi proved the third feature on the bully himself.}}

* In ''[[Tortall Universe|Squire]]'', Raoul demonstrates the sharpness of Kel's [[Blade Onon a Stick|naginata]] to Flynn by placing a feather on the blade. It, of course, cuts the feather in half without any effort.

* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', during the contest with Pirelli, Sweeney does this. Generally, on-stage, he pulls one of his hairs out, slices it, and watches it fall to the ground, all during a pause in Pirelli's song.