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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. Uh, we have had some helping hands

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Speaker 1: with our research today. This is part two of our

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Speaker 1: episode on the true story of the Hand of Glory.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it. So we're talking about more kind

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Speaker 1: of confusion in these recipes. Uh, there is the words

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Speaker 1: zim ats and again I figured out nier pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: That was like a sulfate situation or some kind of preservative,

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Speaker 1: something called vert degree, which is a green pigment or

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Speaker 1: was it Arabian sulfate of iron? Uh? You know this

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Speaker 1: is this guy would have not done well and like

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Speaker 1: a recipe you know, type book situation because these are

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Speaker 1: Like how how what if you get the proportions wrong? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Little Albert has talents, but I think you would be

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Speaker 1: very bad at a recipe writing contest. Also, we got

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Speaker 1: the name of the book is Little Albert. I'm just

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Speaker 1: choosing to picture in my head a lovable diminutive, very

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Speaker 1: creepy Adams Family esque guy, uh stave is little Albert.

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Speaker 1: That's the only possibility here, ben um. But that's the

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Speaker 1: thing though, Little Albert wasn't the only guy talking about

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Speaker 1: this particular you know tool of the trade. Um. There

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Speaker 1: were all kinds of different sources that gave different advice.

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Speaker 1: In the Whitby Museum in nor of Yorkshire, you can

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Speaker 1: see a genuine hand of glory on display there and

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Speaker 1: it's it's about like you think it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: CORPSI mummified looking thing, leathery long fingers. Um. They've been

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Speaker 1: from the Gibbet how near the Yorkshire village of Caste

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Speaker 1: la Um. Interesting that Gibbett is in the name there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's I think that's a coincidence. Or

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Speaker 1: was there this place notorious for hanging criminals? Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean six in one hand of glory, half a dozen

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Speaker 1: thing about this exhibit is that it also contains a

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Speaker 1: page from a book that was published in eighteen and

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Speaker 1: this book has a competing recipe for a hand of glory.

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Speaker 1: Just like you know the situation where you may use

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Speaker 1: or something, and you're gonna get different takes on the

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Speaker 1: same thing. This recipe says of the hand of glory,

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Speaker 1: it must be cut from the body of a criminal

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Speaker 1: a month of fun. I like this variation. It's very

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Speaker 1: p centric. Variation is, uh, what else do you need?

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Speaker 1: Because they've got some timing that comes into play here. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it must obviously must be hung from an oak tree

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Speaker 1: I know you can appreciate ben then hung on a

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Speaker 1: Absolute must. And if it be that no fear hath

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Speaker 1: is really porch centric this one. This is a very

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Speaker 1: I would love to have had the ability for us

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Speaker 1: need it's fair use because we're talking about the song structurally, right,

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Speaker 1: don't see us exactly. We want to protect ourselves from

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Speaker 1: legal liability. And there were people who believed in the

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Speaker 1: hand of glory. You can imagine they wanted to protect

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Speaker 1: uh using a hand of glory, there are a few ways.

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Speaker 1: pantry staples right, right right? What would a magical protection

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Speaker 1: cursed gambler's hand on display. Apparently this guy was caught

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Speaker 1: the Hand of Glory different from so many magical items, Well,

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Speaker 1: the difference is that, unlike necro pants or something of

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Speaker 1: a really great article on Alice obscura called necro Pants

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Speaker 1: and other Tales of seventeenth century Icelandic sorcery. So a

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Speaker 1: whole another universe of creepy, morbid sorcery to to dig

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Speaker 1: First off, the pictures of the necro pants are not

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