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Level 16 Level 26

Crawling Hand

Release date	26 January, 2005 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	16
XP per kill	15.4 (and 5.1 experience)
Slayer level	5
Slayer XP	8 (9.6 on contract)
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	Gimme five. Actually, don't.
Combat stats LP Max hit 200 32 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 8 8 1 1 Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No No Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? No No Attack style Weakness Melee Fire spells

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Crawling Hand

Release date	26 January, 2005 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	26
XP per kill	36.6 (and 12.1 experience)
Slayer level	5
Slayer XP	9.4 (11.28 on contract)
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	Now that's handy. I'm glad it's just the hand I can see... A big severed hand. Give the guy a big hand.....
Combat stats LP Max hit 650 52 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 13 13 1 1 Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No No Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? No No Attack style Weakness Melee Fire spells

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Crawling hands are Slayer monsters that require level 5 Slayer to kill, and are the first Slayer monsters that beginning Slayers can kill. (Below level 5 Slayer, players are assigned other monsters.) They frequently drop gloves and rings, since they are reanimated severed hands. They are also one of the creatures that will sometimes "die" in a perfect form allowing you to get it stuffed by a taxidermist and mounted in your player-owned house. The stuffed hand along with 5 zeal points can also be exchanged for a creeping hand Summoning pet at Soul Wars.

Players can also kill skeletal hands and zombie hands as part of a crawling hand Slayer task. These monsters yield more slayer and combat experience than crawling hands and have better drops. Skeletal and zombie hands are found in the Meiyerditch Dungeon, which can only be accessed during and after the Legacy of Seergaze quest.

Despite common perception, crawling hands are living, so Crumble Undead and Salve amulets have no additional effect.

LocationsEdit

• Morytania Slayer Tower ground floor
• Taverley Slayer Dungeon (lvl 16)

Crawling hands also appear within Daemonheim. For more information see Crawling hand (Daemonheim).

DropsEdit

100% dropEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bones	1	1 Always	93

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
89%	9–10%	0.7–0.8%	0.6–0.7%	0.1–0.2%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 43,233 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Weapons and armourEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Leather gloves	1	2 Common	12
	Gloves (grey)	1	2 Common	622
	Gloves (yellow)	1	3 Uncommon	1,635
	Gloves (red)	1	3 Uncommon	1,019
	Gloves (teal)	1	3 Uncommon	661
	Gloves (purple)	1	3 Uncommon	6,539
	Mystic gloves (light)	1	5 Very rare	405,809

JewelleryEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Gold ring	1	3 Uncommon	171
	Sapphire ring	1	3 Uncommon	470
	Emerald ring	1	3 Uncommon	851
	Ruby ring	1	3 Uncommon	1,111

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	5,8,312,442	2 Common	Not sold
	Ashes	1	3 Uncommon	351
	Hand bone	1	3 Uncommon [1]	Not sold
	Crawling hand corpse	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

1. ^ Only while doing the Fur 'n' Seek wish list.

TriviaEdit

• The concept probably originated from the story, "La Main Gauche" from French author Guy de Maupassant. This theory is backed up by the ability to display the hand in one's home, as in the story. Another possible origin of the crawling hand might also be a reference to the Wallmasters/Floormasters from the Legend of Zelda series or Thing from The Addams Family. Another possible inspiration was from the B-movie "The Crawling Hand", in which an astronaut burns up and crash lands with his hand being the only surviving part, which becomes animated via radiation.
• One could surmise the idea of these crawling hands coming from Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, in which Christopher Lee's character (Marsh) is haunted by the severed, crawling hand of his enemy that committed suicide.
• With the release of Smoking Kills on 5 June 2008, their appearance was changed.
• The black markings seen on some of the crawling hands is very similar to the appearance of Ash's possessed hand from Evil Dead 2, which he severs with a chainsaw, after which crawls about on its own
• All crawling hands seem to be right hands.
• There are no monsters in Runescape large enough that the crawling hands could have been 'severed' from to be the actual size that they are. It's possible that they are human hands which have been zombified and then enlarged (unless you count Glod from the 'grim tales' quest).
• Crawling hands are the lowest level monster that drop the Vecna skull.