1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome 2 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. As always, thank you 3 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: so much for tuning in. Uh we just got done 4 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: exploring the folklore of which is in broomsticks in a 5 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: very racy way and uh dare we say titilating? I 6 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: don't know, but elating. Maybe there was a lot of 7 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: butt stuff in that episode. We subably should have put 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: a specific trigger warning right right. Uh, well, we are dive. 9 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed that one. Because we're keeping the 10 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: Halloween Halloween, I like that. Leave it in when we're 11 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: keeping the Hall the Halloween train rolling and shout out 12 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: to anybody who just got their great seasonal nickname. Uh 13 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: we talked about giving ourselves spooky nicknames, so I would 14 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 1: like to uh get some suggestions for the audience for now. 15 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: I'm Ben. Yes, we talked about this superroducer Casey Pegram. 16 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: I think we're all big fans of the Simpsons Halloween 17 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: special Treehouse of Horror credit names. Isn't one of them 18 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: just like dead in the middle, you know, like yeah 19 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: instead of ed oh and okay, so that does have 20 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: to rhyme or be connected in some way, So my 21 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: middle name is Christian. How about this Noel Satan Brown? 22 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: Here we go, There we go. I was thinking I 23 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: had a list somewhere, but obviously I've lost it. I 24 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: was thinking Casey crypt Keeper, Pegram, Hey, I like the 25 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: crypt keeper. That's pretty good, dude, got the alliteration going. 26 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: It also implies that you're sort of an into administrative role, right, 27 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: And I think the rules aren't needs to have alliteration 28 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: or be a pun or rhyme. I think those are 29 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: like our three tiers. And I think Noel Satan Brown 30 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: sounds pretty cool too, like like people's actual name is evil. Anyway, 31 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: we're doing we're doing spooky stuff. You can't see our 32 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: zoom call today, but I am very conscious, gentlemen, of 33 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: your hands because today, uh, this show is all about 34 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: hands in a very very grizzly way. Because we know 35 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: that if you are a fan of fairy tales or 36 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: fantasies or horror stories, and you're familiar with the idea 37 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: of magical items, right, didn't we do an episode on 38 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: grim wise here? Or is that stuff they don't want 39 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: you to know? Yeah, it it all blurs together. Ben. 40 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: That might have been stuff they don't want you to 41 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: know grim Wise not ringing a podcast. Belford. Yeah, well 42 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: we're gonna get into that in this one. And uh, 43 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: you know, if you want a little bit of a 44 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,679 Speaker 1: precursor or you should go check out The South that 45 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: wants you to do episode on grim Wise. Yeah. A 46 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: grimoise a magical work. You know, it's a it's a 47 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: book of spells or a book of incantations, instructions and 48 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: so on, and they're real bent a quick point of order. 49 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 1: You know, some people say memoir, some people say memoir, 50 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: do some people say grimoire, and some people say grimoire probably, Yeah, definitely. 51 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 1: Casey is nodding. I think that's the thing with Ernest this. Yeah, 52 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: I think so. Uh. We also see stories of magical clothing, right, uh. 53 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: But as it turns out, these stories aren't just made 54 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: up by some especially creative authors hallucinating or something. Human 55 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: history is chock full of real life things that were, 56 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: and in some cases still are considered imbued with magic powers. 57 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: In fact, there are so many more than you might assume. 58 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: In today's episode, we're going to explore one of the 59 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: most morbid magical items in human history, the hand of 60 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: glory doesn't sound so bad. That sounds kind of nice. Yeah, 61 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: it sounds like maybe the hand that makes the winning 62 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: pitch in a baseball game or something. Years later, there's 63 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: some guy in a bar somewhere and he's holding up 64 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: his hand and he's like, this is the hand that 65 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: won the World Series. The hand of glory. Everything it 66 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: touches is imbued with like a holy golden light, and 67 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: light does play a role. Like. Okay, this is a 68 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: weirdly specific one. Think of it this way. Let's say 69 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: you are a professional second story artist somewhere in medieval Europe. 70 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: I am a professional second story artist. Are you familiar 71 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: with that? Here? No, it's it's a it's a euphemism 72 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,679 Speaker 1: for a thief. Oh okay, I don't want to derail 73 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: it too quickly. But what is that where? What is 74 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: the reference? It's the idea that you would break into 75 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: the second story of a building. Got it? Get a 76 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: five finger discount with them glory hands there. Yes, let's 77 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: say that, your second story artist, you're a thief in 78 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: medieval Europe and you are set to pull a life 79 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: changing heist. There's only one problem. There are dozens of 80 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: people inside this building and you have to make sure 81 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: that they do not wake up when you break in, 82 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 1: and that they're asleep for long enough for you to 83 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: get away safely. Luckily, you have a special piece of 84 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: equipment from a thief, someone who tried a job like 85 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: this weeks, days, or even centuries ago. Yeah, it's true, 86 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: and that that piece of kit that the in question 87 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: here is the hand of Glory, which is a severed, preserved, mummified, 88 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: shriveled hand formerly belonging to an executed criminal, particularly the 89 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: left hand. And we talked about this off Mike last week. 90 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: I am left handed, and that I write with my 91 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: left hand. I do pretty much everything else with my 92 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: right hand. That has so a few occasions these days 93 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: to actually write hold on, hold on the moment of 94 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: appreciation for the for the sentence I write with my 95 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: left hand. That's a good one. That's a good one. 96 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: That should go on a ridiculous history. Shut that you 97 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: can buy one day at the public dot com. But uh, 98 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: you know, other than like signing signing credit card receipts 99 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: that don't write very much anymore. Everything's bashed out on 100 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: this antiquated Apple keyboard that I have that sounds like 101 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: machine gun fire whenever, right time. But I digress. The 102 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: point is I think it's interesting that like redheads and 103 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 1: left handed people somehow are evil or or get lumped 104 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: into this idea of of being sinister or wicked in 105 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: some way, right. I mean, just look at the etymology 106 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: of the word sinister. So the interesting thing here is, yeah, 107 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: the left hand was usually preferred for the hand of glory, 108 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: but you'll also see accounts that say it must be 109 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: the pickled, ampute right hand of a criminal. Here's the thing, 110 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: in general, if you're looking to make a hand of glory, 111 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: it depends on the crime for which the criminal was executed. 112 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: If they are executed for being a murderer, then you 113 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: want to find the hand that has done the deed right, 114 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: and that's the hand you need. That's the magically powerful hand. 115 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: This concept of cutting off someone's hands and ritualistic lee 116 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: preserving it for magical purposes dates at least as far 117 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: back as the sixteen hundreds. That's when we see the 118 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: folklore hand of glory mentioned. It's mentioned in a book. 119 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: I thought you guys would love this. It's mentioned in 120 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: a book called The Petite Albert, the Little Albert. It 121 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: is a grim wi. It is the cutest name for 122 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: a book of dark magic that I've ever seen. Uh. 123 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: It's it's a compendium of folk magic, alchemical lore and 124 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: ballistic invocations and enchantments and so on. From France, and 125 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: this was published. It was distributed in different languages across Europe. 126 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: The thing about this book is our pal little Albert 127 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: has a step by step guide on creating a hand 128 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: of glory. Boy does he ever? And it's delightfully detailed. Um. 129 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: It goes as as as such, take the right hand 130 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: or the left hand that he doesn't care, he doesn't, 131 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to have a preference, you know, why not? Sure? 132 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: Why not take the right or left hand of a 133 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: felon who is hanging from a gibbet beside a highway, 134 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: which I assume is sort of like a pike or 135 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: you know, a pole. It's the thing that people are 136 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: hung from, our hangs from. Yeah, they would need a 137 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: little crane bit at the top right to allow for 138 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: proper hanging. Um, So, a gibbet beside a highway. Apparently 139 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: highways were allousy with these things back in the day, 140 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: just hanged criminal old bodies, just littering the side of 141 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: the road, wrap it in part of a funeral paul, 142 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: which is sort of muslin kind of right, like a cheesecloth, 143 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: almost material. Uh, and so wrapped. Squeeze it well, squeeze 144 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: it well. Then put it in an earthenware vessel with 145 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: zimmit niter, salt and long peppers. Um the whole well powdered. 146 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: I'm assuming night is sort of like nitrate like things 147 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: that are like a preservative. Right, Yeah, exactly, potassium nitrate. 148 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: So we've got our marinade here. And uh. The author 149 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: of Little Albert says, you leave it in the vessel 150 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: and fall a fortnight. Then take it out and expose 151 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: it to full sunlight during the dog days, the hot 152 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: sultry days of July and early August, until it becomes 153 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: quite dry. If the sun is not strong enough, then 154 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: put it in an oven with their and vervaine. Next, 155 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: make a candle from the fat of a gibbeted felon, 156 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: virgin wax, sesame and pony p O n I E. 157 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: And use the hand of Glory as a candlestick to 158 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: hold this candle when lighted. And then those in every 159 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: place into which you go with this baneful instrument shall 160 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: remain motionless. I love the word vervane. Put it in 161 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: an oven with fern and vervane. I'm assuming it's another 162 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: kind of herb of some sort. This all sounds the 163 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: ways is described with, you know, the long peppers and 164 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: the herbs and spices. Doesn't sound too bad. Yeah. Also, 165 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: the turns of phrase here are are epic, gibbeted, give 166 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: me a break, virgin wax, sesame, and and pony. I 167 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: don't know what pony is, but it sounds really whimsical. Yeah, 168 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: we'll get to this. Uh. It is interesting because there 169 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: are vagaries in this description, kind of like George Washington's 170 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: weird instructions for his Uh what was that eggnog? Eggnog? 171 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: A boozy, boozy eggnog? Um. Yeah, it's almost like his 172 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: magic stuff isn't an exact science. Oh wow, how could 173 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: you say something so brave? Ye's so controversial? Hot take? 174 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: I know. So what was the point? Okay? What was like? 175 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: What did this magical, disgusting, creepy mummy hand give the bearer? 176 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: It's a great question. In Old European folklore, the hand 177 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: of glory was specifically useful for thieves. It functioned as 178 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: a kind of grizzly skeleton key. So one of the 179 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: powers was attributed to it was the idea that I 180 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: could unlock any door it came across. But that wasn't 181 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: the main power right way, Like, so do you jam 182 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: it's little mummy finger into the lock? Unclear? Uncle? You 183 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,119 Speaker 1: hold it up, so you have to light it somehow, 184 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: whether you're lighting the tips of the fingers or whether 185 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: you have it holding that candle made of human fat. 186 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: The idea, I think is that you hold it to 187 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: the door, and the doors like oh tight, and then opens. 188 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: You know, I definitely now that you're staying like this, 189 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen a finger candle mummy thing 190 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: as set dressing and like Tales from the Crypt or 191 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: something like that, or some spooky laboratory scene, you know, 192 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: or a wizard's lair or what have you. But here's 193 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: the thing. Yeah, to unlock the full potential of the 194 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: hand of Glory, you have to kind of that. There's 195 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: some really specific um orders of operation to the whole procedure. 196 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: Earlier we mentioned the basic criteria was that it came 197 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: from a hanged criminal um presumably if you just happened 198 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: upon this hanged criminal. You wouldn't really know what crime 199 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: this this person committed, so a little extra knowledge goes 200 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: a long way, as we know. So we've talked about 201 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: the basics of of of a hand of glory, uh 202 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: from little Albert you know his his was pretty STOs. 203 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: I would say that's the most like kind of one 204 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: oh one version of of making a hand of glory. 205 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: But it turns out to really get the full you know, 206 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: bang for your your morbid buck. There's a kind of 207 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: an order of operations, sort of a ghastly combo of sorts. 208 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: Right Ben, you found this story, Um, I think it 209 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: makes sense for you to kind of walk us through 210 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: some of the options here, uh, and some of the 211 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: more elaborate versions of this set device. Ah. Yes, yes, 212 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: you do have more than one option with a hand 213 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: of glory. You know. It's kind of like how there 214 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: are different flavors of Eminem's. They're still they're all still Eminem's, 215 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: but they have, you know, different strokes for different folks. 216 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: You could have a hand of glory wherein that human 217 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: fat candle is somehow placed on the hand or embedded 218 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: in it, and in that version the hand has the 219 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: power or to render everyone who sees it motionless other 220 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: than presumably the magician of criminal holding it. And then 221 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: in another version, just the human fat is not good enough, 222 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: you also have to take the dead criminals hair and 223 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: use that as the wick of the candle. In that version, 224 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: when you burn this candle, you get a light that's 225 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: invisible to everyone else other than the person holding the hands. 226 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: There's also the idea that you could just like the 227 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: tips of the fingers that would provide the same powers, 228 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: but you know, the individual mileage may vary. That's right, 229 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: and the fingertip light version is the is the is 230 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: the one that I kind of picture is like set 231 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: dressing material for, you know, some kind of like macab 232 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: b movie or something like that, like an Alvira type situation. 233 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: Band back to the human hair real quick. Uh, that's 234 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: kind of gross, Not that any of the stuff isn't gross, 235 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: but I mean, what do you like you wax it 236 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: up a little bit so it sort of burns slower, 237 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: because in my experience, human hair just kind of goes 238 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: up in a poof you know, I don't know that 239 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: it would slow burn unless you treated it in some way, 240 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: maybe like I said, coded it in wax like you 241 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: would a wick. That's smart. I like that your solution 242 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: oriented here. I also think it's hilarious that that's the 243 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: line for you. Uh for me, the human human hair 244 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: just smells terrible when it burns. You know, it does 245 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: smell cerebral. Yeah, Like, I can't imagine that human fat 246 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: smells particularly appetizing when you burn it. Either. These are 247 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: questions that are pal Little Albert does not explain. I'm 248 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: having such a hard time saying uh, Petite Albert or 249 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: little Albert without doing a baby voice. It's just the 250 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: most ridiculous name for like a necronomicon book, right, there's 251 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: zero gravitas. It makes me think a little Abner or 252 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: Prince Albert, perhaps two very different things, different Alberts. Yeah, 253 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: it's true. Um, and again we've got a couple of 254 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: different potential powers that come along with this thing. I 255 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: love the idea of the skeleton key. I don't quite 256 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: understand the logistics of it. Does it magically just give you, 257 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: like mystical lock picking powers or do you actually cram 258 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: the finger into the lock? Remember that movie House? I 259 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: always remember seeing the box of it. I never saw it, actually, 260 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: I've seen clips and it's very bad. But the box 261 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: freaked me out when I was a kid because there's 262 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: this severed hand reaching for a doorbell. Yeah. No, there's 263 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: one with a key, though there's there's there's like there's 264 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: a sequel where the finger is a key and it's 265 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: going into the lock or something like that. Maybe I'm 266 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: making that up now. They made like they made like 267 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: four or five House movies, and exactly I never saw 268 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: the original because it was rated R and I was 269 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: too young to in it. But House Too was like 270 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: PG or PG thirteen, so I watched that when it 271 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: was terrible. That's pretty forward thinking. I didn't think they 272 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: did PG thirteen horror movies until more like the the 273 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: Japanese horror reboot period glory days of the early office 274 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: they did. I mean, there's a great calculation here. This 275 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: may be more appropriate Free Guys, other show movie crush, 276 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: but uh, there's quite a successful franchising trend in which 277 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: you start off with straight up horror and then as 278 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: you get to the sequels, it becomes increasingly camp increasingly comedic, right, 279 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: evil dead, And I feel like that's what happened with House, 280 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: because it seemed like it was more of a legit 281 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: horror movie maybe the first one, but the second one 282 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: was just kind of all over the place in silly, 283 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: so that that could have been what happened there. Also 284 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: there's a hand of glory in Angel Hart, which I 285 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: think I mentioned uh in a previous episode um with 286 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: Mickey Rourke and Robert de Niro as a very like 287 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 1: as the devil who went to a nail salon basically yeah, 288 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: and he's got a really on the nose like human 289 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: name that basically means the devil is it Is it 290 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: like an anagram or something really like obvious and dumb 291 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: like that. It's almost as bad as like Mr Natas 292 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,239 Speaker 1: or something. By the way that the house box it 293 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: is ringing the doorbell, but you can see in my 294 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 1: memory of a child sings as a shop you could 295 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: very easily mistake it for a finger going into a 296 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,239 Speaker 1: lock because it's sort of a profile shot of this 297 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: like severed hand. And now that I'm looking at it, it 298 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: it is ringing like an old timey doorbell, but it 299 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: also kind of looks like a door knob and the 300 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: finger is bony on the tip, and it makes me 301 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: think of like a key situation. So the cover for 302 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: House too. It is a key, So I think you 303 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: you're remembering it properly. You just saw how she instead. Okay, 304 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, you guys, I just I just remember 305 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: Robert de Niro's character's name, and Angel Heart is Louis Cipher. Yes, yes, 306 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: that's Brutal Cipher. And that's right up there with like. 307 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: And here's our newest visitor from Europe, Professor A. Lucard. Yes, 308 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: sad evil, Professor Thaddius Evil. I think it's unfair that 309 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: you're accusing Mr Antagonists of no foul play of some sort. 310 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: How dare you? You've seen the hand of Glory before 311 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: in fiction, even if you didn't know what it was. 312 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: It's in great comic books like The Invisibles, which I 313 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: highly recommend. It's clearly that cover of House is kind 314 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: of a call back to it. Right, it's a severed 315 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: hand attempting to open a door. Uh. And of course 316 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: many of our fellow ridiculous historians in the audience today 317 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: are shouting, I know, like a particular thing where I've 318 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: seen this Angel Hart or of course the Wickerman seventy 319 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: three version. But this has some other oddly specific powers 320 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: to right, there's one other one that we should mention absolutely, 321 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: And I was actually getting to it earlier when we 322 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: got derailed by the Whole House video box finger key 323 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: uh child memory discussion. But um, one of the other 324 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: powers is this notion that the hand could uh put 325 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: everyone in a house into a deep magical slumber or 326 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: even something like a coma. And that was so that 327 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: you could go in and do your dirty work and 328 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: you know, steal the silver or whatever. Yeah, it's a 329 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: bit like the broomstick question. It sounds normal if you're 330 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: used to it, but if you're coming into this new 331 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: it's weirdly specific. How on earth does someone conceive of this? 332 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: It's a tricky question, and the answer might be found 333 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: in etymology. There's an etymologist named Walter Skeet who says 334 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: the actual phrase hand of Glory might be an example 335 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 1: of what we call folk etymology. Fulk etymology is like 336 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: when you over time see a word or phrase change. 337 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: Because somewhere in the Great Telephone Game of His three 338 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: People replaced an unfamiliar word or phrase with a more 339 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: familiar one, and Casey, I thought you would especially like this. 340 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: The phrase itself derives from a French phrase, uh manda glory, 341 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: which is, yeah, that's what I was seeing, like Mandel 342 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: Laguire or something like that. Exactly. It's a corruption of 343 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: man drake. And there's a there's a book called Leechdoms, 344 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: which is a much less cute name than Little Albert, 345 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: that describes a man drake as shining by night altogether 346 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: like a lamp. And so the phrase got corrupted into 347 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: the English phrase hand of glory. But even if that 348 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: was just like an an old typo or an old mispronunciation, 349 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: people believed it and they started really making these things, 350 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: because it turns out human beings have attributed magical powers 351 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: to the hands of the dead for a long long 352 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: Dare I say, inglorious time? Yeah? And and and and folks, 353 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: my remember I think man drake swear in Harry Potter, 354 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 1: but also in uh Pan's Labyrinth there was a whole 355 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 1: thing where you put a man drake root into like 356 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: a bowl of milk and put it under somebody's bed, 357 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 1: and little and a pregnancy here. So there's all kinds 358 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: of that. This is very similar to that type of 359 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: magical thinking, you know, or if you you take a 360 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: turnip and peel it using a rusty you know, spoon 361 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: once belonging to a hedge night or something like that, 362 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: and then you put it in a mason jar. This 363 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: mixing all this stuff up from history. None of these 364 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: things existed together at the same time. You get what 365 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm saying. But the name aside. It turns out that 366 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: humans have been fascinated with all of this type of stuff, folklore, 367 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: magical powers, the hands of the dead, all of this 368 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: for a very very long time. UH. In Sharia law 369 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: UH in particular, and in medieval Europe UM. Publicly amputating 370 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: a criminal's body part, often the one used to commit 371 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: the crime, was a particularly potent form of punishment. It's 372 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: certainly sent a message and the pain was part of 373 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: the punishment, but also the it marked you. It was 374 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: like a scarlet letter of sorts um, so people would 375 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: know that you were a thief or or what have you, 376 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: and it was a warning to any other people in 377 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 1: the crowd who may have considered violating the laws. This 378 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: is very very old. It dates back to what the 379 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: first written code of laws that we know of, the 380 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: code of Hammurabi, that's the Babylonian code of laws that 381 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: dates back to ancient Mesopotamia. What we call Iraq today. 382 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: The sixth Babylonian king Haberabi wrote down the set of 383 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: laws that dates somewhere back, like into seventeen seventy two 384 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 1: b c e. Somewhere around there. It's when the oldest 385 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: translated writings in the war Old and has two two laws, 386 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: some of which are very very harsh, uh. And it 387 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: has scaled penalties. One of those things is the famous 388 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: or infamous eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. 389 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: So you steal the bread, the hand that has committed 390 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: the offense is removed. And we see these commonalities some 391 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: of the same things you're talking about, the idea of 392 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: punishment of like for like, and the belief and sympathetic magic. 393 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: The logic here is what better way to perform a 394 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: successful robbery than to enlist the help of a former thief. 395 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: I have a huge problem with this logic, you guys, 396 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: because technically, aren't you getting the help of a very 397 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: unsuccessful thief, a thief so unsuccessful that they got caught 398 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: and executed. Yeah, it's true. I didn't really think about that, Ben, 399 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: But you have a good point there. I don't know, 400 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't necessarily have to do with the skill 401 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,719 Speaker 1: of the individual. It's just more what they represent. You know, 402 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: a out of this is all about optics, right, It's 403 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: all about representation or the idea of a you know, 404 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: Let's say you needed like a squirrel or something as 405 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: an ingredient for some sort of potion. It wouldn't necessarily 406 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: have to be like the most virile squirrel in the 407 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: entire universe. Just a squirrel will do. Any thief will 408 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: do for the situation. Skills be damned. Yeah, yeah, I 409 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: mean that's definitely, Uh, that's definitely the approach that of 410 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 1: folks were taking when they were practicing this magic and 411 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: without spoiling it. We do have some stuff that we'll 412 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 1: get to towards the end of today's episode that shows 413 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 1: you what makes the Hand of Glory different from so 414 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: many other grizzly stories of magical items. But back to 415 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: those creepy hands, so little Albert's helpful this aside. Uh, 416 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: there was a lot of debate about the instructions even 417 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: when the book first came out. Go back to the 418 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: word pony po in I e. For instance, does that 419 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: word refer to horse dung or is it a specific 420 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: type of sesame? People were still we're fighting over the 421 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: interpretation of the original French. Was it due sesame at 422 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: the Laponi, which is of course, or was it do 423 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: sime de la uh sesame of Lapland? Two very different things. 424 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: I'm definitely le anymore towards the horse. Uh excrements here Lapland? 425 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: How does that even make sense? How could you use 426 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: lab the whole of Lapland in your recipe? Um? What 427 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 1: one tiny backtrack? I just want to bring this up 428 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 1: blast from the past. Didn't Josh Clark used to have 429 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 1: the nickname Josh Creepy hands Clark? Did I make that up? 430 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, the quister, used to call him Josh Creepy 431 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: hands Clark? That was that was probably my fault. Actually, 432 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: really well, you know I am with nicknames. Oh yeah, 433 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: but where does this come from? Though? But it does 434 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: he particularly odd looking hands? Are they small? Uh? I 435 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: can't remember. This dates back to possibly the brain Stuff days. 436 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: So when I was running the writing side of brain 437 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: Stuff videos and we had a bunch of a bunch 438 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: of our colleagues coming in as host Casey you and 439 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 1: I were working on this in the past. Uh. I 440 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: also read a lot of the YouTube comments along with 441 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: our pal Lauren Vogel Bomb and we would have to 442 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: respond to some of these questions and such. And one 443 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: of my favorite weird questions was on a video that 444 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: Josh did one time again years and years ago, where 445 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: they said, uh, how come his hands are so weird 446 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: but his arms are normal? And I still don't know 447 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: what they meant by that. I got it, Okay, he 448 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: does have weird hands, he has normal, beautiful person hands. 449 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: Just making sure I I'm sorry, it just came to mind, 450 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: um talking about all these this creepy hand stuff. Well, 451 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: in the words of Britney Spears, oops, we did it again, 452 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: trying to think of a severed hand pun for Britney 453 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: Spears lyric, it's not coming to mind to media. But 454 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: played with my hands with my heart's Backstreet boys. Oh yeah, 455 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 1: that's right, stop playing games with my hand. There we go, 456 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: not Britney Spears, but it'll do, it'll do. Got a 457 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: hand to do your casey uh? This is this has 458 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: turned into a two part episode. We've got some more 459 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: stuff on the way. We've got some surprising revelations in 460 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: the modern day, and we're just scratching the surface of 461 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: morbid magical items. This one in particular yep scratching the 462 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: surface with a creepy, cursed mummy hand. That's what we're doing. 463 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: But we'll be back to do more surface scratching. That 464 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: sounds weird, but I'm gonna leave it um. In the meantime, 465 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: you can check us out on social media where Ridiculous 466 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: History on Instagram and Twitters and Facebook and all the things. Uh. 467 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: We like to point people to the Ridiculous Historians are 468 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: fan page dare we say community on Facebook where you 469 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: too can share silly history memes and have conversations with 470 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: your fellow ridiculous historians. Yes, yes, we'd love to hear 471 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: from you. Uh. We also like to give some shout 472 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: outs thinks as always to Alex the Abomination Williams of 473 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,719 Speaker 1: doing it, we're doing nicknames who composed our track thanks 474 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: to Casey the crypt keeper pegram huge thanks to Christopher 475 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: hack Saw hasiotis uh here in ghostly spirit looming over 476 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: us like some sort of sinister fog, and uh we 477 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: were we were looking for a good nickname for Eve's Casey. 478 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: You knocked it out of the park. Just you can't 479 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: go wrong with the alteration. So he's Jacqueliner and Jeff 480 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: coat and who is Hallow? Wayne? We kept that one. 481 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: I love it. I'm I'm using it. I mean, you know, 482 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's like you've seen that the new 483 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler movie, Hubie, Well, I want to see it. 484 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: I'ven't watched. I watched it. It was you know, dumb 485 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: but cute and entertaining. I very much enjoyed it. Actually, 486 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: it's it's it's you know, just dirt stupid. But uh, 487 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: he's he's like a kind of he's basically the water 488 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: boy who really likes Halloween but uh inexplicably is terrified 489 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: of every part of it but loves it. But like 490 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, it goes into like existential fits of horror 491 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,479 Speaker 1: if someone like spooks him or like where's creepy makeup? 492 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: And yet he adores Halloween, but he's more in it 493 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: for like, you know, keeping the kids safe. It's a 494 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,959 Speaker 1: little confusing the character. But that could be a Halloweyn, 495 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: you know, someone who really just digs Halloween, like David 496 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: s Pumpkins. You know, yeah, I'm thinking. Also maybe Wayne's 497 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: World special Hallo, Wayne's World. That's good. Also true story. 498 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: Apparently Adam Sandler wants to take all of his characters 499 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: and build out a shared cinematic universe with him. Does 500 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: that mean like there's multiple Adam Sandler characters that exist 501 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: in the same world, all like played by Adam Sandler. 502 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: The man has the range for it. You certainly could 503 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: call it that. Uh yeah, yeah yeah. So maybe it's like, 504 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: you know, the nutty professor kind of vibe. But good 505 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,719 Speaker 1: luck to you, Adam. Uh, we'll we'll see you on 506 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: the flip side, thinks. Also, of course, to Jonathan Jonathan 507 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: Strickland a k a. The Spookster, thank you. Sorry, I'm sorry. 508 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: I thought no, I thought you were going somewhere. I 509 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be Jonathan Strickland, the Spookster something else. 510 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I've completely left you hanging on that one. 511 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: Then I was, I was thinking Jonathan Scarecrow Strickland. Yeah, 512 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: also an option. He is a little gaunt and uh 513 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: and and sinister. I will say that We'll see you 514 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: next time, folks to talk about more spooky, creepy hand 515 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: stuff on Ridiculous History. 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