"The Hand of the Ghost that Bit." HANDS ALL ROUND Nothing was more common, in the seances of Home, the "Medium," than the appearance of "Spirit hands".

If these were made of white kid gloves, stuffed, the idea, at least, was borrowed from ghost stories, in which ghostly hands, with no visible bodies, are not unusual.

We see them in the Shchapoff case, at Rerrick, and in other haunted houses.

Here are some tales of Hands, old or new.
THE COLD HAND [Jerome Cardan, the famous physician, tells the following anecdote in his De Rerum Varietate, lib.x., 93.

Jerome only once heard a rapping himself, at the time of the death of a friend at a distance.