In the good old days where you could be accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake for the simple act of living past 40 years old (
Caveat Lector! I
may or
may not be making this up.), the european continent was riddled with strange and creepy beliefs.
One of those was the Hand of Glory; the mummified hand of a criminal who died at the gallows. It was believed that lighting a candle, made from the fat of the same man, or each individual finger, depending to whom you ask, would plunge a whole household in a deep sleep, which would last until the flame had been snuffed, either with blood or milk.
This made the Hand of Glory the perfect tool for burglars and other sly folks with crime on their minds.
Following the reading of
this post by the good spirit behind Propnomicon (Is it a man? a woman? an unspeakable horror? who knows!), I decided to make myself a mummified hand. Not only that, I was also going to make it with some
ghetto-ass materials.
