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"The hand of mysticism, hysteria, hallucinations, and religious mania." The caption doesn't say this is the hand of a mystically-minded person who experiences hysteria, hallucinations, and religious mania. Rather, it suggests that the hand itself embodies mysticiam, hysteria, hallucinations, and religious mania. Therefore, the illustration is transformed into a talisman, akin to the Hand of Fatima. From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
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