Talk:Hand of Glory

Wikiproject Paranormal
I question its inclusion in Wikiproject Paranormal. It appears to be a folktale; is there any specific, corroborated example of paranormal activity in history? --Chr.K. 05:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

In Popular Culture
Should this article be moved to "Hands of Glory in Popular Culture"? The article as it stands is almost exclusively mentions of this. --ForbiddenWord 14:36, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Alot of that should probably be thrown out. 76.117.247.55 (talk) 03:22, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Given that the main advantage of the www over paper-based records is the ability to easily connect and cross-reference via hyperlinks, surely the "in popular culture" section should be allowed to grow larger.88.105.1.176 (talk) 09:04, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Didn't a Hand of Glory appear in one of the Harry Potter books, at the shop he appears in after using Floo Powder to get to Diagon Alley?--92.14.107.77 (talk) 09:10, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Also in Half Hours
http://books.google.com/books?id=uJsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA49&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0 76.117.247.55 (talk) 03:22, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Similar Objects in American Folklore
I removed the following and bring it here for discussion:


 * The use of the Rabbit's foot as a good luck charm may be part of a similar tradition.
 * [[Image:Rabbit foot blues.jpg|thumb|320px|The cover to Rabbit Foot Blues, a [[blues]] song by Blind Lemon Jefferson, links the rabbit's foot tradition with the bones of the dead.]]
 * A blues song Mojo Hand, sung by Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker refers to this object, but does not describe it further.

This is unreferenced and offers no evidence of a connection between the rabbit's foot, mojo hand, and the hand of glory. As such, it must remain out until referenced. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive' 23:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

"Lapland sesame oil"
This is clearly someone's idea of a joke, now propagated all over the web by Wikipedia mirrors and credulous copy-and-pasters. Flapdragon (talk) 11:12, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, it dates all the way back to 1752, when "du sisame de la ponie" in the 1722 original Petit Albert was rewritten as "du sisame de Laponie"Arildnordby (talk) 22:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

lead compared to body of article
Several references appear only in the lead and not in the article. The lead means the first few paragraphs meant to summarize the article, and draw a reader's interest to the full article. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable in this topic could work those references into the main body of the article, and modify the lead appropriately. Only the most pivotal references need be cited in the lead. I spent some time just now putting the references in a more consistent format and placement -- all in the Reference list, not in the text itself, using cite web, cite book formats as appropriate. It was a mix of the two styles before. And I updated a dead link to a translated poem. In some case it was not clear if text put inside a ref was meant to be a quote, or if it was as I guessed, that the ref start code was not inserted at the right place. --Prairieplant (talk) 06:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I made a try at it, moving text to two new sections in the main body of the article, and putting shorter summary sentences in the lead. --Prairieplant (talk) 07:34, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Capitalization
Not sure why this is capitalized like a special phrase. Opencooper (talk) 19:18, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

I’m movies
Hand Of Glory Also Appears In The Movie By Stephen King Quicksilver Highway. 166.199.149.122 (talk) 14:07, 2 July 2023 (UTC)