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** 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.
** Also seen in [[Harry Potter]]: It seems Draco Malfoy owns one.
** ''[[Labyrinths of Echo (Literature)|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.
** ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' had something very like this made, except from a hand of still-living dude.
** ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', as usual. There are many artifacts known as "hand of X" (often hands of various avatars)
*** ''[[Greyhawk]]'' has the Hand of Vecna
*** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has Hand of Harrowing (it's mostly used to ward a place against undead).
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter]]'', there are more public domain artifacts per square inch in the Prosperos' mansion than anywhere else. Several are mentioned above. But they were collecting them.
* The tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi. Some [[expy]] versions use artificial lake of mercury or terracota figurines alone.
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