According to old European belief, a candle made from the severed, dried hand of a criminal who had been hanged—known as the Hand of Glory—had supernatural powers. The hand was usually the right hand of a felon—cut off while the body still dangled from the gallows...

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198607663.001.0001/acref-9780198607663-e-462
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-severed-hands
• http://www.thestorytelling-resource-centre.com/scary_stories3.html 
• https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/hand.html#baring-gould
• The Petit Albert (English Edition): Secrets of the Little Albert
• The Ingoldsby Legends (1905)by Richard Harris Barham;"The Hand of Glory"
• Anthropological Notes on the Human Hand Frank Baker American Anthropologist, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan., 1888), pp. 51-76 (26 pages)

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