Chiromancy or cheiromancy, also known as palmistry or palm-reading consists of the practice (or pseudoscience) of evaluating a person's character or future life by "reading" the palm of that person's hand. (The Greek components of the word "cheiromancy" carry implications of "hand-divination".) Various "lines" ("life line", "heart line", etc) and "mounts" (bumps) purportedly suggest interpretations by their (relative) sizes and intersections...
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I'm afraid, though, that I may have been a little misleading in
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a figure as one would have wished to see--part Greek, part
talking to some one whom he could not comprehend really. She was
more remote than he had ever seen her before. In a strange flash
Atlantis, Cyprus, and its Paphian shrine. His eyes burned with a
went on, quite strainedly. "I felt you did care about me. But
force, "I won't bother you. You do understand me. You know.
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