"The Red Hand", by Arthur Machen

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0:00:00 The Problem of the Fish-Hooks
0:14:41 Incident of the Letter
0:25:37 Search for the Vanished Heaven
0:38:31 The Artist of the Pavement
0:46:39 Story of the Treasure House

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From the annotations:

Abury: Avebury, a name of a village in Wiltshire and site of Neolithic henge. Sometimes called Abury, as by antiquarian William Stukeley (1687-1765) in his "Abury: A Temple of the British Druids" (1743).

mano in fica: "fig hand" - a sign used to avert the evil eye. [Although note that fig in Italian is actually 'fico', and 'fica' is rather a crude and rude term... Although I can't say what the case was a hundred+ years ago]

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: a Fuegian, from "Notable Voyages from Columbus to Nordenskïold" by W.H.G.K and H. Frith

Chapter 2: "Figa" by Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla. Ilustraciones de la obra: Lello universal em 2 volumes : novo diccionário encyclopédico luso-brasileiro / organizado e publicado pela Livraria Lello sob a direcçao de Joao Grave e Coelho Netto. - Porto : Lello & Irmao, [1940?]

Chapter 3: "Newgrange: entrance stone with megalithic art" by Jal74, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

Chapter 4: Tuck's Oilette of a Victoria Embankment Screever, by Leonard Bentley, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 5: a gold-toned statue of the Greek god Pan, by TheDecapitatedGoat

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