Fingers and Fortune; A Guide-Book to Palmistry

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... CHIROMANCY. CHAPTER VIII. LINE OF HEART. Turning to Chiromancy, which, according to my division, deals generally with characteristics of the hand other than fingers or mounts, two kinds of lines have to be studied: the large lines crossing the palm and the smaller ones, often little more than scratches, found on the mounts. Of the large lines three, heart, head, and life, are usually regarded as chief; and although to my thinking the line of fate, where it exists in its entirety, is equally important, and affords more detailed interest, to avoid confusion I will classify them in the usual manner, calling the Saturnian (line of fate or destiny) the line of Apollo (or the sun), and the Hepatica (or line of liver) the three secondary lines. My remarks on palmistry should perhaps be prefaced by stating that I do not consider it necessary to select any special time for examining hands, although many authorities attach much importance to it; neither do I think that manual labour affects the lines or shape of the hand so as materially to interfere with the readings of Chirognomony or Chiromancy. I told the hand of one of the Oxford University crew immediately after the boat race, with, I believe, absolute accuracy. The line of heart should rise on the Mount of Jupiter, and proceed, more or less straight, at the base of the Mounts Saturn, Apollo, and Mercury, to the percussion or side of the hand. The higher it rises on the Mount of Jupiter the better. Almost reaching the root of the first finger it shows idealization, but if cutting the root, or starting from the back of the hand, there is excess of feeling, from which jealousy will arise. Should the ring of Venus (to which I shall refer later) run parallel with it, this jealousy will be so excessive as to make ...