英语词汇hand of glory的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hand of glory. This is an example of a new custom or super- stition created by an etymological error. A hand of glory was originally a charm made of a mandrake root, which was be- lieved, among other things, to double one’s money when put beside it overnight. Hand of glory was a translation of the French main de gloire, meaning exactly the same, but the French expression was a corruption “by popular etymology” of what had originally been the Old French for mandragore, “mandrake.” Thus, when the term came into English early in the 18th century, people couldn’t help but think that the charm consisted of a human hand. This led to a completely new super- stition due to the deformation of the word. By 1816 we find a writer explaining that the hand of glory “is a hand cut off from a dead man, as has been hanged for murther, and dried very nice in the smoke of juniper wood.” Such charms made from the hands of executed criminals were said to help one sleep, that is, lull one into a dead sleep, among other things.

词汇	hand of glory
词源	hand of glory. This is an example of a new custom or super- stition created by an etymological error. A hand of glory was originally a charm made of a mandrake root, which was be- lieved, among other things, to double one’s money when put beside it overnight. Hand of glory was a translation of the French main de gloire, meaning exactly the same, but the French expression was a corruption “by popular etymology” of what had originally been the Old French for mandragore, “mandrake.” Thus, when the term came into English early in the 18th century, people couldn’t help but think that the charm consisted of a human hand. This led to a completely new super- stition due to the deformation of the word. By 1816 we find a writer explaining that the hand of glory “is a hand cut off from a dead man, as has been hanged for murther, and dried very nice in the smoke of juniper wood.” Such charms made from the hands of executed criminals were said to help one sleep, that is, lull one into a dead sleep, among other things.
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