There is a deadly weapon used by the Wolves of the Calla (a golden ball) to kill their enemies, and it conspicuously shares a name with a device found in another piece of contemporary fiction. What is the object?

The deadly golden-ball weapon used by the Wolves of the Calla is called a sneetch.

In Stephen King’s The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, the Wolves attack the village using futuristic weapons. Their flying grenades are called sneetches and function as lethal weapons against their enemies.

The name is a deliberate pop-culture reference. The novel states that the objects come from the Harry Potter product line, where the comparable device is the Golden Snitch, a small golden ball used in Quidditch.

The term also echoes the Sneetches created by Dr. Seuss, making the reference deliberately layered. The quiz’s stored answer points to the Harry Potter connection, but the weapon’s canonical name is simply “sneetches.”