Victims were hacked with machetes, beaten with Bibles and cudgels, and burned with embers. Men from both sides armed themselves with cudgels, staves and bows and arrows. The game features three main types of weaponry (cudgels, sledgehammers and knives). Later, commoners were given war hammers, cudgels, or quarterstaves with sharp iron tips. As polo was an obscure sport to Europeans then, the polo-sticks became batons or cudgels. The Irish have used various sticks and cudgels as weapons of self-defence for centuries. Casualties of this trend were spears, cudgels, sticks and the bow and arrow. Some of them use shields in fighting, others use cudgels. She pleads his son to take cudgels against the liquor baron Toogudeepa. The boy, now grown up, takes up cudgels against his evil uncle. That night he resolved to "take up the cudgels" himself. "Fight with Cudgels" had been situated in the upper room of Quinta del Sordo. On the left were "Atropos (The Fates)" and "Fight with Cudgels" respectively. Afterwards, being risen, Lodovico goes to the garden and cudgels Egano. "Cudgels" was also a popular sport among young men.