Then put it into an earthenware vessel with zimat, nitre, salt and long peppers, the whole well powdered. Take the right or left hand of a felon who is hanging from a gibbet beside a highway wrap it in part of a funeral pall and so wrapped squeeze it well.
The 1722 Petit Albert describes in detail how to make a Hand of Glory, as cited from him by Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry:
