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==== Literature ====
* ''[[The Laundry Series]]'' has Hands of Glory serving as channels from an extradimensional energy source. Not only do they bestow invisibility, they can be used to fire [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], though this causes the hand to degrade. The Laundry usually gets theirs from Chinese political prisoners.
* [[Simon R. Green]] occasionally has one show up with the power to open and seal locks, portals and barriers both mundane and magical.
* Also appears in a poem by the same name in the ''Ingoldsby Legends'' where it has the power to send a household into a deep slumber.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': One is for sale in Borgin and Burke's in ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Chamber of Secrets]]''. Draco uses it<ref>At least, it's heavily implied to be the same one</ref> in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Half-Blood Prince]]''.
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' had the Order of the Icy Hand, who used an extra source of power made of the adept's left hand chopped off and embedded in an enchanted ice crystal. Of course, then they had to take turns guarding those. As one could expect, they were people with great desire to work high-end magic, but little natural "talent" for it, so this inconvenient way to compensate was their only known option.
 
==== Live-Action TV ====
* ''[[The Dresden Files (TV series)|The Dresden Files adaptation]]" had a Hand of Glory that could let people walk through walls.
 
==== Tabletop Games ====