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	The Hand of Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The term the "hand of glory" is believed to be derived from the French "main de glorie" or "mandrogore" and be related to the legends of the mandrake.
		Belief in the efficacy of the Hand of Glory persisted as late as 1831 in Ireland.
		The belief in the Hand of Glory was the subject of "The Nurses’ Story" one of the "Ingoldsby Legends" of Thomas Ingoldsby (Rev. Richard Braham, 1837).
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/h/hand_of_glory.html (497 words)

	Hand of Glory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged, often specified as being the left hand.
		According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor who died on the gallows, lighted and placed in the Hand of Glory (as in a candlestick) would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented.
		The Hand of Glory also appears in the graphic novel series "The Invisibles" by Grant Morrison, although here it is an extradimensional tool used to warp spacetime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hand_of_Glory (678 words)

	49. The Hand of Glory. Rhys, Ernest, ed. 1921. The Haunters & the Haunted
		He asked piteously for a lodging, and it was cheerfully granted him; there was not a spare bed in the house, but he could lie on the mat before the kitchen fire, and welcome.
		She watched the beggar, and saw him, as soon as he was left alone, draw himself up from the floor, seat himself at the table, extract from his pocket a brown withered human hand, and set it upright in the candlestick.
		She saw the fingers of the hand flaming, but the thumb remained unlighted, because one inmate of the house was awake.
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	Hand of Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled Hand of a man who has been hanged.
		According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor who died on the gallows or of the finger of an unborn child, lighted and placed in the Hand of Glory as in a candlestick would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented.
		Hand of Glory : manufacture and use of the Hand of Glory.
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	Hand of Glory - Acadine Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Hand of Glory was the hand of a dead man, in which a lighted candle has been placed.
		This hand was generally the right hand of a murderer and was severed while the corpse was still hanging from the gallows, preferably this was done during an eclipse of the moon.
		To be truly efficacious, however, both hand and candle must be prepared in a special manner.
	www.acadine.org /index.php/Hand_of_Glory (126 words)

	The Hand of Glory: CJV Translation
		An article on display in Borgin and Burkes, one of the larger and finer establishments in Knockturn Alley, the Hand of Glory is a withered hand on a cushion (See Book 2 Chapter 4).
		Originally, the Hand of Glory appears to have referred to a withered hand used by thieves to ensure that everyone in the house they planned to rob was asleep.
		The Hand of Glory was made from the hand of a felon hanged on the gallows.
	www.cjvlang.com /Hpotter/gadgets/gloryhand.html (237 words)

	Hand of Glory
		After it was rendered of its fat, then spiced, pickled, and dried, the so-called Hand of Glory resembled a mummys hand.
		The Hand could also be used to cast a spell over a sleeping person, making him sleep for a whole day without waking.
		Hand of Glory and other stories are from the book The Book of Wizard Craft back
	www.expage.com /gloryhand (709 words)

	Royal Trux: Hand of Glory: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Now that Royal Trux's new joint, Hand of Glory-- really a "lost album" from the late 80s-- has hit the shelves, our chance to sit down and seriously inhale some fresh slowness is upon us.
		Hand of Glory's side two, titled "The Boxing Story", is a composition for tapes featuring recorded materials on cassettes being reversed, cut up, collaged, layered, and drenched in effects.
		Hand of Glory is an example of two fine exercises of military strength and rigor.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/r/royal-trux/hand-of-glory.shtml (583 words)

	The Hand of Glory
		At last, stealing down into the kitchen, while the thieves were busy over her master's strongbox, she secured the hand, blew out the flames, and at once the whole household was aroused.
		"Hand of Glory" legends are classified as type 958E* tales in the Aarne-Thompson folktale classification system.
		"The Hand of Glory," Marjorie Rowling, The Folklore of the Lake District (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1976), pp.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/hand.html (2089 words)

	Hand of Glory
		A Hand of Glory is made from the severed hand of a hanged man cut from him while he was still on the gibbet.
		When a candle held by a hand of glory is lit within a household of sleeping people, everyone who is asleep will remain so until the candle has burned down or the hand of glory is moved.
		The hand of glory will affect any size of building, but all the occupants must be asleep or the candle will not light.
	www.epicadventures.8m.net /tools/items/handog.htm (285 words)

	Hand of Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The strength of the Hand of Glory could be doubled by using it for a candle holder.
		This color was the result of a preservation technique which involved the draining of the blood of the hand of a hanged criminal which had been cut off, and afterward using saltpeter and Lapland sesame to preserve it.
		However, it is also said that if one of the fingers of the Hand of Glory will not light, it means that there is still someone within the house that is not asleep.
	www.shadowdrake.com /folklore/hand.html (707 words)

	The Hand of Glory and Witchcraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Hand of Glory is a grisly candle-holder.
		According to one account, form the sixteenth-century demonologist Martin del Rio, a thief once lit the Hand of Glory outside a family's home, but he was observed by a servant girl.
		The moment the candle was extinguished, the family awoke and caught the thief red-handed; the maid was, of course, rewarded for her bravery and quick thinking.
	www.shanmonster.com /witch/wards_tools/hand.html (430 words)

	Shuddersome Shorts -- The Severed Hand (of Glory)
		This hand, it belonged to a vicious killer, a madman who had killed thirteen people in my country before he was caught.
		Hands rained down on his head, floppy hands, landing on his shoulders and staying there.
		The Severed Hand (of Glory) is copyright 1999, by Jeffrey Blair Latta.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/dark/hand.html (2991 words)

	Sophie Masson: The Hand of Glory
		Sophie Masson's novel The Hand of Glory is set in Australia in 1854 at the height of the Australian gold rush.
		The Hand of Glory is billed as "juvenile fiction," however it is enjoyable for anyone and is neither simplistic nor juvenile in the writing or the story.
		Although The Hand of Glory doesn't completely work as mystery, alternate history, or fantasy, it is an enjoyable book which appears to work in spite of itself.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/masson.html (613 words)

	The Hand of Glory
		His hand must be severed at the wrist with a sharp knife.
		The hand should then be preserved in an earthenware jar that is filled with salt, saltpetre and fl pepper — all well powdered and mixed.
		The landlord took the Hand of Glory with the candle from the mantle-piece and threw them both onto the fire, where they were quickly consumed.
	www.thestorytelling-resource-centre.com /scary_stories3.html (1108 words)

	The Hand of Glory's Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He had sat for the entire class of Muggle Studies with his chin resting on the heel of his hand, listening vaguely to the lecture and jotting down random notes.
		On one hand, possible safety and freedom, the light at the end of the tunnel.
		On the other hand, the loss of the siege might now let people focus on the other concerns that were hiding underneath it.
	handofglory.greatestjournal.com (1906 words)

	Map of manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Our first haue waist, with his face on his way art of uniting before he hand on the doorlatch slaughtered chastity, “I was as pretty as Helen of Troy once, upon any matron who map of manhattan worde or devise.
		refuting arguments straining her forthwith, by the blaze of glory, hand on the doorlatch flowed through the reckoned it would have to do.
		But more sorrowefull, that he had spoken, such winking, hand on the doorlatch friends that I wish to he nymphs which is common too vs 7.
	map-of-manhattan.montessorihelmond.nl (335 words)

	KMC Forums - Hand Of Glory
		The hand of Glory was in diagon alley in the store that harry aciednetly floo powdered to.
		Hands of glory is a guild in Buldur's gate to lol
		Or maybe, the Hand of Glory is just there to give the first time audiences a clue that Harry wasn't in Diagon Alley.
	www.killermovies.com /forums/f44/t297580.html (527 words)

	Urban Dictionary: hand of glory
		It goes that a master thief carried a dead man's withered hand into the house he intends to burgle, and then lights the fingers on fire.
		A common variation on the tale is that the hand must be taken from the hand of an unborn baby.
		These Hands of Glory were the best, and when lit on fire, could burn forever without being consumed, and also casting a "devil's light", which would light up the darkness, but only for the thief holding it.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=hand+of+glory&defid=685665 (296 words)

	Hand of Glory
		This 96-page sourcebook contains everything needed to create and run Hand of Glory threats, from the shock troops in its lowest ranks to the diabolists and war criminals commanding them, as well as the seemingly immortal Eva Kraus and her inner circle of power.
		New details about Hand of Glory territories are included, with focus on the organization's central bases of operation, the icy wastes of Antarctica, and the darkest corners of South America.
		Included are several major new Hand of Glory threats, fully fleshed out and integrated into the official history, and a global espionage organization rivaling the scope and power of the Archer Foundation itself!
	www.orcsnest.com /blurber.asp?title=Hand+of+Glory (534 words)

	RTX Archive: Hand of Glory Press Kit
		Drag City at this time was expecting a record from us so we started to put art together for something called Hand of Glory.
		There was as always a lot of both half-assed and bad-assed fl, white, and blue magic floating around, from fortune tellers types to people who might boil their roommates in a soup.
		A hand of glory was a hanged man's hand.
	www.rtxarchive.com /discography/presskits/presskit_glory.html (775 words)

	Hand of Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor died on the gallows or of thefinger of an unborn child, lighted and placed in the Hand of Glory as in a candlestick would have rendered motionless all personsto whom it was presented.
		During the 17th century robbers used to murder pregnant women in order to thus extract candlesfrom their wombs.
		The Hand of Gloryand other gory legends about human hands,edited by D. Ashliman.
	www.therfcc.org /hand-of-glory-160985.html (125 words)

	The Meaning of "The Hand of Glory"
		The "Hand of Glory" supposedly comes from an executed criminal and was cut off the body while the corpse was still hanging from the gibbet.
		The recipe for its preparation is simple: squeeze the blood out of the hand; embalm it in a shroud and steep it in a solution of saltpetre, salt and pepper for two weeks and then dry in the sun.
		This candle was then fixed between the fingers of the hand and lit when a burglar broke into a house.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/44_ACT/ACT04.html (833 words)

	eidolon.net: The Hand of Glory by Sophie Masson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		eidolon.net: The Hand of Glory by Sophie Masson
		In acclaimed Australian author Sophie Masson’s stunning new novel, The Hand of Glory, she creates a gripping historical mystery set in Australia’s gold rush era.
		The Hand of Glory is a unique new adventure combining history and fantasy against the colourful backdrop of the gold rush.
	eidolon.net /?book=thehandofglory&pagetitle=The+Hand+of+Glory (140 words)

	Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter VII: Miscellaneous and Minor Processes: Section 4: Concerning the Hand of Glory
		No person who is familiar with the humours of Ingoldsby will have forgotten the wondrous legend of the Hand of Glory, which includes a transcript from the Grimoires.
		Thus enclosed, the hand must be well squeezed to as to force out any blood which may possibly remain in the member, after which it must be placed in an earthen vessel, together with some zimort, saltpetre, common salt and pepper-corns--all pounded.
		It will be seen, however, that the Hand of Glory is not a hand, but a serpent; the process has, in fact, no connection whatever with its name, but this is wholly in accordance with the genius of Black Magic, its variants and its substitutes.
	www.sacred-texts.com /grim/bcm/bcm74.htm (861 words)

	Shadowforce Archer: Hand of Glory and of the Whispering Knife :: GamingReport.com :: Where Gamers get their News
		D20 News: Shadowforce Archer: Hand of Glory and of the Whispering Knife
		Wielding the greatest and most feared powers of the ancients and the unearthed power of countless mystic relics, the Hand of Glory stand poised to topple the delicate balance the Archer Foundation so desperately fights to protect.
		Re: Shadowforce Archer: Hand of Glory and of the Whispering Knife
	www.gamingreport.com /article.php?sid=4663 (302 words)

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	ipedia.com: Hand of Glory Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor died on the gallows or of the finger of an u...
		According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor died on the gallows or of the finger of an unborn child, lighted and placed in the Hand of Glory as in a candlestick would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented.
		The Hand of Glory and other gory legends about human hands, edited by D. Ashliman.
	www.ipedia.com /hand_of_glory.html (191 words)

	KMC Forums - The Hand of Glory
		Now, this Hand of Glory isn't something JKR made up, and I think I remember what it said it was.
		The Hand of Glory was in one book, and there was nothing particularly special about it.
		The Hand of Glory could be the same as Sirius, could turn out to be important later on.
	www.killermovies.com /forums/f44/t347539.html (1011 words)

	Hand Glory - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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