Condition	cancer	Belief	3140 A dead hand touched to a cancer will cure it (F, SLC, 1960). (For the power of the dead man's hand, see Wayland D. Hand, "Hangman, the Gallows, and the Dead Man's Hand in American Folk Medicine," in Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies Honor of Francis Lee Utley, ed, Jerome Mandell and Bruce A. Rosenburg (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp.323-29, 381-87. Reprinted in Hand, Magical Medicine, pp. 69-80. --Eds.)
Method Of Treatment	applied - touch of corpse’s hand	Date Collected	1910-1919
Region Of Collection	Interior Southwest	Place Collected	Utah
Informant Gender	Not Disclosed/Unknown
Informant Age	adult
Citation	Cannon, Anthon S. Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from Utah, edited by Wayland D. Hand and Jeannine E. Talley. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1984.			Volume Number
				Page Number	98
Folkmed Record Number	1_207

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