Bones

There appears to be a number of times that bones or an excess of bones appear. in The Magnus Archives. Included here are extremely sharp bodies that may be caused by bone.
== Appearances of Bones ==
=== Bone book  (MAG 4) ===
When Mary Keay passed her copy of an untitled poetry book through shadows a number of small animal bones fell from the pages. The book appears again in MAG 35: Old Passages and MAG 62: First Edition.
=== Pipes of Bone (MAG 7) ===
The pipes that the piper plays are made of scrimshaw bone.
=== The Boneturner's Tale (MAG 17) ===
Jared Hopworth read a book entitled The Boneturner's Tale, allowing him to remove bones (as well as other body parts, such as hearts) from people and animals without killing them, as well as allowing him to add them to himself or others in the same way.
=== Michael (MAG 26) ===
Michael is an entity that looks like a man, except when viewed through distorted glass or reflections. When seen this way, he seems to have long limbs and giant hands.
=== The Student's Bones (MAG 34) ===
The seven students who learnt anatomy from Lionel Elliot were able to change the shape of their bones with an unsettling crunching noise.
=== Grifter's Bone (MAG 42) ===
The esoteric musical group whose audience kills itself is named Grifter's Bone.
== The meaning of bones ==
In MAG 80: The Librarian Jonathan asks if there is a power that manifests with bones. Leitner answers:
"You’re thinking too literally. Examining the physical categorization, but ignoring the meaning of the thing. What are the bones? In the Distortion, your 'Michael,' the structure of a skeleton, an established reality in your mind, is twisted and warped into an impossible form. But in other cases? Are they a symbol of slaughter and butchery? Are they the familiar made wrong? Or are they simply part of the messy physicality of flesh?"Category:Recurring Themes