They are items given as traditional gifts to a baby that also reflect Orlanth's thunder and lightning. Draw a comb through your hair and you may notice a static charge. Static electicity equates to lightning. Shaking a rattle is, of course, the sound of thunder.
Ian Cooper
"Women as well as men were recruited to restrain combatants, sometimes dampening their weapons by throwing clothing over them. Peacemaking of this sort required strength and courage more than negotiating skills...The clothing was more sign than substance, like the bell signalling the end of a round, and it seems that the sign was not without significant cultual force." - Bloodtaking and Peacemaking by William Ian Miller
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