Here's a true story for you: this is the photo of the box where saint stephen's (who i didnt realize was a saint) hand rests. it costs about 100 hufs (ok, a "huf" isn't real dinero, it's really called the forint, but the international abbreviation is HUF thus for the 2.5 days spent in hungary, i called them hufs).....anyways it costs a ton of hufs to light up the middle of the box to see this hand and b/c A i am cheap and B i didnt want to see a 100000000 year old hand (maybe not that old), i have the darkened photo.
the story behind the hand is that saint stephen was also the first king of hungary. his hand somehow got separated from the body during the mummification process and traveled all throughout hungary before it was returned to the church. they call it the "holy right" b/c it's his right hand.
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