An open hand occurs on tombs in Lycia. (Fellowes' _Lycia_, p. 180.)

The Turks and Moors paint an open hand as a specific against the evil eye.

(Shaw's _Travels in Barbary_, p. 243.)

The open hand in red paint is of common occurrence on buffalo robes among

the tribes of North America, and is also stamped, apparently by the natural

hand dipped in a red colour, on the monuments of Yucatan and Guatemala.

(Stephen's _Yucatan_.)