Picture No | 10025637 |
Date | 1829 |
Description | HAND OF GLORY |
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THE HAND OF GLORY - the hand cut from a dead man's corpse, soaked in oil, and used as a magic torch by robbers because its light was visible only to the carrier
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Source | illustration to Le Petit Albert, manual of popular magic translated from the Italian, page 82 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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