A blood-red hand descends from a fissure in the ceiling of a haunted room, from Pearson's, 1904.

From Die Muskete, 1910.

Some palmistry from Once a Week, 1862.

"Your hands can't earn the money you need."  From Ambition magazine, 1915.

"Mesmerizing water," from The Illustrated Practical Mesmerist by William Davey, 1854.

The hand is saying, "Get out of my presence, or I will strike you!"  From Ballou's Monthly, 1869.

"The shadow cast by the glad hand," by Wilder for the Chicago Record-Herald, reproduced in Hearst's International, 1906.

From Die Muskete, 1918. 

From Wild Animals I Have Known, written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.

"Begin with the blood."  From an ad in Pick Me Up, 1892.

Mesmerizing and demesmerizing, from The Illustrated Practical Mesmerist by William Davey, 1854.

"Character as indicated by the hand," from 1893.

Here's a precursor to the Addams Family's Thing playing a board game.  From Jugend, 1908.

"A feat of endurance."  From Wayside Tales, 1906.

"Long life line—dare-devil and a Northerner.  More head than heart—quick temper."  From Wayside Tales, 1906.

From American Spiders and their Spinning Work by Henry C. McCook, 1889.  If tiny hands intrigue you, recall our previous post about them.

"The twelfth finger of the left hand but one" is a "Dead-Sea Phantasm and gibbering Spectre of Unveracity," an "extravagant and hyperbolical declamation" that is deliberately enigmatical so as to "stimulate curiousity, quicken the reflective faculties, and provide the studious public with fresh materials for innocent conjecture."  A spoof of a poem by Swinburne is offered as explanation:

From Die Muskete, 1931.