That was my thought, too... I guess if you just pick him up by the heels and swing him around... I assume a goddess of the Apocalypse would have the strength to do that sort of thing. :)

Then again, maybe they meant a Partizan, which would be "a weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft, used chiefly in the 16th and 17th centuries." I think either the "s" or "z" is techinically correct for the spelling, though I'm used to the "z" variant. :)