A flare gun is ordinary equipment used in an extraordinary fight. It can deliver fire at a distance, but its effect depends entirely on what is being targeted and why fire matters in that hunt.

A silver weapon is useful only against a creature that is actually vulnerable to silver. This record collects a generic countermeasure class without pretending every silver object works on every monster.

A knife may be a conventional weapon, a ritual tool or merely the delivery system for another substance. This generic record stays separate from named weapons such as Ruby’s demon-killing knife.

Devil's shoestring is a protective herb used to hold hellhounds at bay. It can delay the threat, but Bela's fate proves that a barrier is not the same thing as breaking a crossroads contract.

Holy water exposes and burns many demons. Hunters carry it, spray it, throw it and sometimes bless an entire water system, but stronger demons have shown that the rule is not universal.