![]() ![]() The process for preparing the hand and the candle are described in 18th-century documents, with certain steps disputed due to difficulty in properly translating phrases from that era. ![]() The candle so made, lighted, and placed (as if in a candlestick) in the Hand of Glory would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented. Old European beliefs attribute great powers to a Hand of Glory combined with a candle made from fat from the corpse of the same malefactor who died on the gallows. A hand of glory on display at Whitby MuseumĪ Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man, often specified as being the left ( Latin: sinister) hand, or, if the person was hanged for murder, the hand that "did the deed." ![]() For other uses, see Hand of Glory (disambiguation). ![]()
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