"This unusual name comes from a rare wild orchid called The Lucky Hand or Salep Root, a natural curio that grows in the form of a hand with 2 - 10 life-like "fingers." Gamblers say that its grasping action brings in the Winnings -- and we don't simply use the name -- all our Lucky Hand products contain real pieces of genuine Lucky Hand root plus Five Finger Grass!" 
-- The Lucky Mojo Curio Co. catalogue

A single Lucky Hand Root -- the 1" long hand-shaped root of several species of orchids -- is among the most powerful ingredients that can be added to an African-American mojo bag designed to increase gambling luck. Sometimes called salep or saloop root or "five-finger root," it is not the root of the entirely different plant known as five-finger grass, but gets its name because it resembles a small hand (with anywhere from three to ten fingers).

Numerous other natural roots, herbs, and curios can be found in hoodoo gambler's charms -- including the teeth of alligators, badgers, and bears; rattlesnake rattles; bat hearts; rabbit feet; alligator feet; nutmegs; buckeye nuts; John the Conqueror roots; and lodestones dressed with magnetic sand -- but however much the above items may be thought to draw luck and money, only the rare Lucky Hand root and its cheaper herbal equivalent, five-finger grass, are said to specifically increase luck in games of chance which call for manual dexterity. 

The ancient "doctrine of signatures" dictates that objects in nature reveal their magical or medicinal uses through their form and colour, and thus the pale brown, multi-fingered Lucky Hand root is thought to have special provenance over "all the things that five fingers can do." For this reason, although a Lucky Hand root may be carried by those who play the lottery or bet on horses, it is particularly notable as the pre-eminent ingredient in conjure bags worn by card-players, crap-shooters, three-card monte artists, and others who wish to increase their edge by subtle manipulation of the tools of their trade. When combined with five-finger grass, a John the Conqueror root to increase personal power and mastery, and a lodestone dressed with magnetic sand to bring in the winnings, the Lucky Hand root simply cannot be beaten, according to its devotees.

LUCKY HAND SPIRITUAL SUPPLIES

Lucky Hand Root also lends its power to an anointing oil favoured by gamblers. Genuine Lucky Hand Root anointing oil, which should contain small or broken roots and other herbal essences, is rubbed on the hands before embarking on an evening's play, to limber them up and make them supple. Lucky Hand incense, ritual bath crystals or floor washes, and scented sachet powder are also popular with gamblers or with anyone who wants a "helping hand" in life. Lucky Hand is an old hoodoo formula for oil, incense, sachet powders, and bath crystals that are designed to attract good luck, good fortune, and good times, especially by means of a "helping hand." It is most often utilized as a part of magic spells to win at gambling, but it can augment the "luckiness" factor in love spell work as well.

The labels shown here is from Lucky Mojo brand Lucky Hand spiritual supplies, employed by those who wish to win at games of skill, dexterity, luck, and chance.

The same herbs and fragrances used to dress this candle for customers and clients are the basis of Lucky Mojo brandLucky Hand dressing oil . used for anointing oneself, fixing the home, preparing green offertory candles or feeding amojo bag. These herbs and scents also can be found in Lucky Hand incense powder, sachet powder, and bath crystals.

Like the rest of the Lucky Mojo line, this product contains genuine herbal essential oils, not synthetic fragrances.Lucky Hand labels are adapted from vintage packaging and in many cases the images are as traditional as the ingredients themselves.

Lucky Hand is one of a family of related formulas that also includes Fast Luck, Good Luck, Lucky Number, Aunt Sally's Lucky Dream, Lucky Buddha, Lady Luck, Three Jacks and a King, Lucky Mojo, Japanese Lucky Seven, and Lucky 13 products. Each one of these old-time recipes is slightly different -- some placing emphasis on catching lucky numbers through dreams, others on being hit with lucky "coincidences" or hunches, and still others on obtaining uncanny runs of finger dexterity at cards or dice -- or all of these combined with luck at love and games of chance -- but they have in common the underlying aim of enhancing the magician's internally generated forces, enabling action upon the external world.

The above formulas may, of course, be mixed and matched in any way that suits the practitioner, or may be teamed up with formulas from another line of goods, such as a financial or money luck formula like Money Drawing, or a passion and sexual love spell formula like Love Me.

How you choose to use Lucky Hand spiritual supplies is, of course, up to you, but one very traditional method is to employ them in conjunction with the 23rd Psalm, while praying for all that is desired. 

PSALM 23

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil for thou art with me.
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.
Thou anointest my head with oil.
My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Amen.