Depending on how handy your Props people are? Firstly the knife! You can purchase from a Joke or Novelty Shop, a toy retractable blade Knife or dagger, this will probably be plastic & needs to be modified by adding small magnets to the handles hilt/guard. Then sewing, under the back of the costume, a light gauge steel plate, twice as large as the knifes target area. The costume material has to fairly thin cloth, because this will reduce the path of the magnetic flux. In the same manor, as when you add too much paper, under the fridge magnet at home - the magnets permeability is reduced & it falls off!

If you find problems, you can stick extra magnets on the steel plate, so long as you get the magnets pole polarity correct!

You can add a squeeze bulb of ?Kensington Gore? [Fake blood] to the plate or the knife to make it more realistic!

Chookas

Nik - Your season can?t be that long?

You would never run out of warm props altogether!

Disposing of the bodies, logistically is a greater problem!

Normally if you just bag?em & pop outside the gate - this does save a lot of the paper work!

But you might have to keep spraying for flies!

Unfortunately it also may cost you a few Comps, for the Garbo?s to pick them up!

Chookas