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The upside down star Talking about the Marshal of Jeshimon, The Rev. of the town says: "'notice anything in particular?...Observe the star Wes is wearing.'...It was a five-pointed star, nickel-plated, like they tended to war, except that it was on upside down. 'Whith the two points up-that's the horns of the Devil, and signifies that Elderly Gent and his works.'"

In Mason and Dixon: The upside star is a symbol two things that are connected: 1. when M&D are trying to find true north, they look at starts in their telescope at measure when they reach the peak of their arc arcoss the sky. In the telescope the star is upside down. Thus, upside down stars symbolize points which cut through distortion. 2. The star is seen again and again on rifles of both Dutch and American design. They pop up around slavery, a massacre, and an Iron refinery used for making impliments of slavery and war. The rifle is much like a telescope, but differs in that it shoots lead rather then huge sweaping cuts across the landscape. But they are both acts that are branded by evil.