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Strange Pages from Family Papers by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

Strange Pages from Family Papers

by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

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ā€œAmong other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead manā€™s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ā€˜dead hand,ā€™ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashireā€¦ Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of scrofulous sores.ā€

Though not all chapters have such gruesome subjects as The Dead Hand, all are full of a curious mixture of superstition and local history that will delight and amuse the modern listener. (Summary by David Barnes).


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