According to old European folktale, a candle made out of a dried, severed hand — known as the Hand of Glory — had supernatural powers. It was used by burglars to send the sleeping victims in a house into a coma from which they were unable to wake. There were a couple versions of the Hand on Glory - in one interpretation, a clenched hand is used as a candleholder, with the candle held between the bent fingers. In another version, such as the hand at the Whitby Museum in England, all five…