It seems that almost all.....

by RayLee, Friday, April 17, 2026, 06:22 (18 hours, 49 minutes ago) @ Otony

we know of such things comes from printed and cinematic fiction. There are at least five chapters of Cooper's "deerslayer" on this very subject with the hurons torturing natty with incessant near misses.

In more modern print....if a half-century ago is modern. J.D. MacDonald's beach bum protagonist is marooned due to being shoaled awaiting a favourable tide and passes the tedium by learning to throw and stick an oyster knife. Using that experience and finding himself and accompanying piece of fluff in the involuntarily custody of the antagonist, he sharpens a garden trowel and tosses it enough to reacquaint the technique. It almost works when he sticks the bad guy but loses the girl in the fracas. See "a long and lavender look".