Originally the Maculelê is believed to have been an indigenous armed fighting style, using two sticks or a machete.

The machete (; ) is a large cleaver-like cutting tool.

In various tropical and subtropical countries, the machete is frequently used to cut through rain forest undergrowth and for agricultural purposes ( e. g. cutting sugar cane ).

Because the machete is common in many tropical countries, it is often the weapon of choice for uprisings.

The machete was ( and still is ) a common side arm and tool for many ethnic groups in West Africa.

Some tropical countries have a name for the blow of a machete ; the Spanish machetazo is sometimes used in English.

In the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, the machete is largely used by the native inhabitants.

There, the machete is called " facão " or " facón " ( literally " big knife ").

The modern machete is very similar to some forms of the medieval falchion, a short sword popular from the 13th century onwards.

The kukri is a Nepalese curved blade used for many purposes similar to the machete.

They differ from machetes in that they generally have far thicker, tapered blades optimized for chopping European vegetation ( the thin, flat blade of the machete is better for soft plants found in tropical environments ), sword-like hilts and guards, and sometimes a sawback-blade.

A properly constructed machete will have a convex or flat primary bevel from the spine to the edge, which is formed by a secondary bevel.

* The machete is also a performance weapon used in variations of the Brazilian martial dance called maculelê, often practiced by proponents of capoeira.

* In some Central American regions, the machete is believed to be the best weapon to kill the mythical cadejo.

* In Colombia and other countries in South America, machete is a term often used to describe a kluge.

In some versions the falchion looks rather like the scramasax and later the sabre, and in some versions the form is irregular or ( as is the case in the picture to the right ) like a machete with a crossguard.

* Cleaver falchions: One of the few surviving falchions ( the Conyers falchion ) is shaped very much like a large meat cleaver, or large bladed machete.

This is not a general list of bladed weapons and does not include the machete or similar " sword-like " weapons.

He is the patron of smiths, and is usually displayed with a number of attributes: a machete or sabre, rum and tobacco.

The sword, or much more commonly the machete, is his weapon and he often does strange feats of poking himself with it, or even sticking the handle in the ground, then mounting the blade without piercing his skin.

Shortly after the onset of his third presidential term in 1875, García Moreno was attacked with a machete on the steps of the presidential palace by Faustino Lemos Rayo, a Colombian.

In the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, the word planass means to hit someone with the flat of the blade of a machete or cutlass.

The Brazilian Army's Instruction Center on Jungle Warfare developed a machete with a blade in length and a very pronounced clip point.

For example, during the Aceh War the Acehnese Klewangs, a sword similar to the machete, proved very effective in close quarters combat with Dutch troops, leading the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to adopt a heavy cutlass, also called klewang ( very similar in appearance to the US Navy Model 1917 Cutlass ) to counter it.

On the island, there are few tools to survive with, typically a water canteen, a machete, a pot, and a limited amount of shelter.

Facing off near the shore of the lake, Alice manages to finally defeat Mrs. Voorhees, decapitating her with a machete.

This was accelerated by " popular seizure " led by machete gangs of " war veterans " associated with the ruling party.

For example, the Angolan flag shows a segment of a cog, crossed by a machete, and crowned with a socialist star.

García beheaded Soto with a machete in front of her 4 year old son and sister, for which he was sentenced to life in prison.

When trying to stop some of the male relatives of women, began the battle and killed three residents of the town, two Indian policemen and others were injured with machete wildly as they fled in a canoe.

The symbol in the middle is of a crossed cog wheel ( representing workers and industry ) and machete ( representing the peasantry ) with a gold star.

Officers and men were equipped with U. S. HBT cotton OD uniforms, M-1943 fatigues, Type II field shoes ( with or without canvas leggings ), jungle boots, canvas load-bearing equipment, blanket ( one-half blanket per man ), poncho, and a machete or kukri for brush clearing.

The group amputates Felipe's leg with a machete in an attempt to save his life, but he quickly dies and is left behind.

* A large spider is killed with a machete.

* A snake is killed with a machete.

* A squirrel monkey has the top of its skull chopped off with a machete.

They save Karla and Julie but when they go to find Brookes they find him with a machete through his head and the radio destroyed.

The man hacks off her left leg with a machete and leaves with it.

For agricultural instruments, they use the traditional tacarpo ( a stick with sharp top, made of wood from the palm tree called pijuayo ); together with the axe, the machete and the shovel.

For the more " civilized " provinces and the towns where citizens had been " disarmed ", bolos ( a cutting tool similar to the machete ) and other knife variants are still commonly used for general work ( farming in the provinces, chopping wood, coconuts, controlling talahib ( sword grass ), which could grow higher than roofs if not cut, etc.

* Bolo knife, a Filipino knife similar to the machete

Though described in the Office of Strategic Services catalog as a cross between a machete and a bolo, it was actually based on the Royal Welch Fusiliers Trench Knife of World War I, and was designed as a pure combat knife.

* Parang ( knife ), a type of machete used in Indonesia and Malaysia

The municipality is rich in the craftsmanship of leather goods such as knife and machete sheaths, sandals, articles of jade, tables and chairs, ropemaking, and others.

The parang is a Malaysian and Indonesian big knife, similar to a machete.