In Popular Culture
- "Hand of Glory" is the title of a song by the band Witch (band).
- In the Supernatural episode "Red Sky at Morning", the brothers are hunting down a Hand of Glory in order to burn it and stop the spirit of the thief it was taken from. This was the thief's right hand though, not the left.
- In the Harry Potter series, a Hand of Glory appears twice, once in The Chamber of Secrets (for sale) and again in The Half-Blood Prince (in the possession of Draco Malfoy), as an object which grants illumination only to its holder.
- Hand of Glory is the title of the second album from the Cornish band Spriggan.
- "Hand of Glory" is a song from The Smithereens' album Especially for You.
- In the film Angel Heart, the character played by Charlotte Rampling keeps a Hand of Glory in a box.
- In Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, a Hand of Glory is offered for sale to Richard.
- A Hand of Glory is employed against Sgt. Howie as he feigns sleep in The Wicker Man.
- The legend is the basis for the dark thriller "Hand of Glory" (2011).
- The Hand of Glory is used as a model for the Transient Curse Item in video game Dark Souls
- In Thief: The Dark Project collecting a Hand of Glory is a mission objective for the Cragscleft Prison mission
- In Hellboy's Box Full of Evil story and Being Human story a Hand of Glory is used to paralize everyone except the holder of the hand.
- In The Invisibles by Grant Morrison large parts of the plot surround attempts from both the Invisibles and the Outer Church to obtain, and find out how to control, a Hand of Glory. In the comic, it is seen has having the propensity to open doors in timespace - i.e. open gates to other worlds and ages.
- In the Lost Girl episode "Fae Gone Wild", a Hand of Glory is created by a group of selkies- Fae who become humn when they remove their seal pelts- to recover their pelt from a safe; this version of the Hand is able to penetrate any defence when the candle it holds is lit, and the candle can only be put out by milk.
- Episode 7 of The Dresden Files has Harry tracking down three college students who are using a Hand of Glory to bypass high tech security systems.
- A Hand of Glory appears in the episode "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" in the "After School Special" entitled "Once Upon a Midnight Scary" hosted by Vincent Price (who claims to have used it several times).
- In the 1997 film Quicksilver Highway, Christopher Lloyd's character (Aaron Quicksilver) uses a Hand of Glory as the vehicle to tell his second tale of horror and poetic irony. His description of the Hand of Glory is very accurate when compared to traditional lore.
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