If I touch an electricity source (let’s say a phase wire) with my index finger, and another very conductive material with my little finger, will the current go only through my hand?

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Or will it nevertheless go through my body and wreak havoc like it normally would?

I’m not actually planning on conducting (pun intended) this experiment, just wondering whether the electricity could be “guided” through the body in any predictable way.

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I did pretty much what you said once I touched a live wire with my index finger while my thumb was on the case of the equipment. I was knocked unconscious and I woke up in medical with a path burned through from my finger to my thumb they had to scrape out all the burned tissue and put me on antibiotics to prevent an infection from the dead tissue they couldn’t get. It thoroughly sucked.