It has always amazed me that the ufo aliens came all this way to teach the Egyptians but didn’t bother to show them how to make a true arch.
What is odd (about ancient iron traditions and folk/fairy tales) is that the “cold iron” is always introduced when needed as a prop device - The magician’s dagger is made from cold iron, or the fairy (or dragon) can only be killed by a sword made from cold iron. Reasonable I guess, meteorite iron is pretty rare.
Yet nothing is hotter than a meteorite coming down burned past incandescent in the atmosphere.
On the other hand, the “regular” blacksmith iron is forged hot and becomes a “shield” against fairies, or salt and iron is used to lock in a ghost or demon, or keep out an evil fairy, or imprison a good fairy or whatever. (Horseshoes turned up to catch good luck also.)
So here I am, breathing iron dust, grinding grit, and burning steel for decades .. getting all sorts of tiny pieces and cutting oils and particles embedded in the skin and hands. I must be thoroughly immune to fairies by now. And likely dragons well.