Le Petit Albert is an 18th-century grimoire of natural and cabalistic magic, popular right upto today. The book is a mix of earlier magic, alchemy, talismons, the turning of lead into gold; and also agricultural and domestic recipies for cooking and making soap. A mixture of a magic book, and a farmers almanack. The book is also famously known for the directions for making a 'hand of glory', the dried or pickled left hand from a man who has been hanged holding a candle made from the fat of the same man. Magic properties are attributed to the candle, such as the ability to render motionless any person to whom the candle is presented to.