Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology, the practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practice palmistry are generally called palmists, hand readers, hand analysts, or chirologists.

手相 又稱 掌相，是一種以 手掌 的形態和紋理去推論 運程 的 算命 法， 中國 、 西方 、 吉卜賽 都有這種學問。 現代手相學主要研究人的心理狀態。 [1] 目前有各種各樣手掌形態與紋理相術的研究，其間也有一些相互矛盾的解釋。 這些不同解釋之間的矛盾，以及缺乏對手相預測的實證支持，導致學術界將手相認定成 偽科學。 [2][3] 而中國手相學的掌形以金、木、水、火、土為重心所形成的四百種不同的形態。 手指由外觀來看，可依其手指的形狀、基位的高低，指節、長短、關節 …

2021年12月2日 · Of all the divination practices, palm reading, also known as palmistry or chiromancy, is one of the most highly regarded, albeit difficult to grasp (pun definitely intended). Simply put,...

The chiromantic art has been known in China, Tibet, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, and it underwent significant development in ancient Greece. Medieval palmistry was pressed into service by the witch-hunters, who interpreted pigmentation spots as signs of a pact with the Devil.

Chiromancy appears first in Judaism in the circle of *Merkabah mysticism . The fragments of their literature include a chapter entitled Hakkarat Panim le-Rabbi Yishma'el written in a rabbinic style. This chapter is the earliest literary source of chiromancy which has thus far been found.

Palmistry with the meaning of palm reading or hand prediction is to learn a person’s personalities, fortune and future by analyzing his/her hands. It is also called Chiromancy. In fact, palmistry not only refers to the reading of one’s hand or palm, it also …

2016年10月31日 · Some people think palmistry (or chiromancy as it is sometimes known) is hocus pocus and that it is all nonsense. How can lines and bumps in the palm of the hand foretell your future? Yet, you can find palm readers all over the world; you may have one in your area.

2024年8月15日 · Chiromancy, Or Palmistry. The practical part of chiromancy is that which gathers probable predictions from lines, the places of the planets in the hand, and from the notes and characters everywhere posted and marked out in the hands and fingers. These lines and their planetary relevancy are thus defined:

CHIROMANCY (Palmistry)The determination of a man's character and frequently of his fate and future from lines and other marks on the palm and fingers was one of the mantic arts which developed in the Near East, apparently, during the Hellenistic period.