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HAND OF GLORY
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and entirely unromantic bands of robbers, murderers, and footpads swarmed over the country, and robbed and slew with comparatively little fear of the law, were also extremely superstitious days. Good men and bad were alike steeped in a degrading belief in white and black magic, portents, and omens. Magical aids in the prosecution of both innocent and guilty enterprises were employed; and among them none more fearful than the charm known generally as the
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Hand of Glory : the
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of thieves and assassins, among whom, it is to be feared, we must include not a few of our
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highwaymen; although probably the larger number of them would actually have felt themselves insulted at being styled thieves, and certainly only a minority slew wilfully. Most desired nothing so little as to shed blood, in spite of the terrible alternative they threatened—
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Your money, or your life!
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Hand of Glory was widely prevalent. It appears to have originally derived from mediæval Germany, that storehouse of terrible imaginings. What the
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Hand of Glory