"Length of her days is in her right hand; and in her left band riches and honour."
Proverbs ch. 3, v. 16
Th This quote from the Bible shows just how old the study of palmistry is. The woman in the quotation is not a real person but an archetype for wisdom which may hark back to paganism. Having said that, "wisdom" must be left-handed, for only a very left-handed person would show the general trend of life in the right hand with worldly goods and success shown in the left!
Judging by the cave paintings of hands that have been left by stone age people, humans have been studying their hands for a very long time. Pythagoras and other ancient Greeks wrote about this as far back as 497 BC and they may have picked up their information from gypsies and others who came from the east. Today, hand reading is widely practiced all over the world and particularly so in Asia and the Orient. Napoleon Bonaparte was fascinated by all forms of divination, so he and his colleagues gathered information while travelling in Egypt, Spain and Eastern Europe during the Napoleonic wars. This may have encouraged a number of 19th-century investigators to look into the subject, or it may have just been a coincidence that much modern palmistry originated in France. The first books on scientific palmistry were French and the most famous of these were Cheiro's Guide to the Hand and Language of the Hand which were written by Count Louis Hamon, who was better known by his pen name "Cheiro".
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