Hands of Spirits
There are instances in occult history where the hand only of a spirit has become visible to the human eye. During the reign of James I. a vision of this kind came to a certain clerk who was engaged in writing a will which was to disinherit a son. It took the form of a fine white hand, which appeared between the candle and the parchment, casting a shadow on the latter. It came three times, till the clerk, becoming alarmed, threw down his pen and refused to finish the work. In the Book of Daniel it is related: "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king (Belshazzar) saw the part of the hand that wrote." There are also many instances of writing being done without human hands, and a Mr. Wolf, of Ohio, states that he has shaken hands with spirits, as "substantially" as one man shakes hands with another. After a certain vision, it is recorded that Daniel was touched by a hand, which set him upon his knees and upon the palms of his hands.