The Symptoms of Kali Yuga

"Sukadeva Gosvami said: Then, O King, religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of Kali." Follow my personal blog if you want. mitsukake.tumblr.com/

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David Gough

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Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen; (1914) (1913) Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker She held his head about the water and let the waves drive them whithersoever they would

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L’oiseau volage - George Barbier, 1914

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the mermaids discover sir guyon and the old palmer in their boat

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Hand of Glory

The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged, often specified as being the left (Latin: sinister) hand, or else, if the man were hanged for murder, the hand that “did the deed.”

According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor who died on the gallows, lighted and placed (as if in a candlestick) in the Hand of Glory, which comes from the same man as the fat in the candle - would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented. The candle could only be put out with milk. (In another version the hair of the dead man is used as a wick, also the candle is said to give light only to the holder.) The Hand of Glory also purportedly had the power to unlock any door it came across. The method of making a hand of glory is described in “Petit Albert”, and in the Compendium Maleficarum.

[Image: A ‘Hand of Glory’ at Whitby Museum, the story of which is available here]

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