De Givry is expressly using the 1722 edition, where the phrase is, according to John Livingston Lowes " du Sisame et de la Ponie" and de Givry notes that the meaning of "ponie" as "horse dung" is entirely unknown "to us", but that in local Lower Normandy dialect, it has that meaning. Next make a kind of candle from the fat of a gibbeted felon, virgin wax, sesame, and ponie, and use the Hand of Glory as a candlestick to hold this candle when lighted, and then those in every place into which you go with this baneful instrument shall remain motionlessĭe Givry points out the difficulties with the meaning of the words zimat and ponie, saying it is likely "ponie" means horse-dung. If the sun is not strong enough put it in an oven with fern and vervain.
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Leave it in this vessel for a fortnight, then take it out and expose it to full sunlight during the dog-days until it becomes quite dry. Then put it into an earthenware vessel with zimat, nitre, salt and long peppers, the whole well powdered. Take the right or left hand of a felon who is hanging from a gibbet beside a highway wrap it in part of a funeral pall and so wrapped squeeze it well.
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The 1722 Petit Albert describes in detail how to make a Hand of Glory, as cited from him by Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry: Cockayne in turn is quoting Pseudo-Apuleius, in a translation of a Saxon manuscript of his Herbarium. 245, that the mandrake "shineth by night altogether like a lamp"". Skeat writes, "The identification of the hand of glory with the mandrake is clinched by the statement in Cockayne's Leechdoms, i. The concept inspired short stories and poems in the 19th century.Įtymologist Walter Skeat reports that, while folklore has long attributed mystical powers to a dead man's hand, the specific phrase Hand of Glory is in fact a folk etymology: it derives from the French main de gloire, a corruption of mandragore, which is to say mandrake. 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."
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