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The Wax and Wane of La Main de Gloire
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If you have heard of the Hand of Glory please raise your, well ummm, hand.
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For those of you unfamiliar with this gory magickal talisman, they involve the severed hands of hanged criminals or a dead child used as a base for a candle to predict the presence of treasure, the success of a theft, render others motionless & light the way for its enchanter.
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An all-round useful tool I hear you cry but would you wish to make one?
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(picture courteous of Atlas Obscura)
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Recipes for a Hand of Glory
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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. Then put it into an earthenware vessel with zimat, nitre, salt, and long peppers, the whole well powdered. 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. If the sun is not strong enough, put it in an oven with fern and vervain. 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…
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It must be cut from the body of a criminal on the gibbet; pickled in salt, and the urine of man, woman, dog, horse and mare; smoked with herbs and hay for a month; hung on an oak tree for three nights running, then laid at a crossroads, then hung on a church door for one night while the maker keeps watch in the porch "and if it be that no fear hath driven you forth from the porch ... then the hand be true won, and it be yours."
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1823 Manuscript held at Whitby Museum
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If all of this sounds like a bit of a faff to cook up and you’d like yours ready to order then we, at The Enchanted Annex, can provide, at a bargain price, the vegan friendly option.
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Not only do we sell hands, but fingers as well along with deity ritual tealights and scented small votive candles. If you require something more basic, unique or specific to your own personal requirements, please feel free to contact us and we will magick it up for you.
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Caesar this offer while you can!
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Come and see us at our next upcoming Fair / Market :
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Chedworth Mystic Market
Chedworth Village Hall
Fields Road
Chedworth
Gloucestershire
GL54 4NE
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Products you may be interested in :
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£25.00
Our very own Hand of Glory candle!
One of our Igor's gave up his own murderous hands to give us this special piece for your gory horrifying pleasure.
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Made from Soya Wax with intricate detail, it will complete your Halloween collection or live permanently on your altar. Our Candles are made from soya wax, which is eco-friendly, non-toxic and does not burn with black smoke like paraffin candles do.
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Custom Hand of Glory candles can be produced to any colour upon request.
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Our finger candles are cast from the molds of fingers from the hardest working computer analyst Igor we could find. They are made from the highest quality soya wax in a selection of gruesome colours. Soya wax is eco-friendly and nontoxic. and does not burn with black smoke like paraffin candles do.
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£10.00
Hand Embroided can be adapted to a card or gift of your choosing with a choice of frame colours
17cmx12cm (including frame)
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Herbalism
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In the herbeginning…… By Anna Curtis There were plants and there were women (and men but mainly women) who knew how to use these plants. They were the midwives and nurses of their time and people used them until one day society said ‘Hold on! This gives them power and knowledge. We don’t want the peasants (let alone the women) …
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Meditation
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Meditation by Lori Penhaligon “If I had to give up all magickal and spiritual disciplines except one, I would happily ditch every invocation, spell, and exercise that I know in favor of simple meditation.” In all my years of practising meditation, I have never felt the need to define what meditation actually is (“Is, is is. The …
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