[Aristotle's works.].

  • Aristotle, pseud.
Date:
[1890?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Aristotle's works.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    under the little linger, and ends near the mid- dle finger. The girdle of Venus, which is another line so called, begins near the first joint of the little finger, and ends between the fore-finger and the middle finger. The line of death is that which plainly appears in a counter line to that of life, and is called the sister line, ending usually as the other ends; for when the line of life is ended, death comes, and it can go no farther. There are lines in the fleshy parts, as in the ball of the thumb, which is called the mount of Venus; under each of the fingers are also mounts, which are governed by several planets; and the hollow of the hand is called the plain of Mars. I proceed to give judgment from these several lines :—In palmistry, the left hand is chiefly to be regarded, because therein the lines are most visible, and have the strictest communication with the heart and brain. In the next place, observe the line of life, and if it be fair, extended to its full lengthy and not broken with an intermixture of cross lines, it shows long life and health, and it is the same if a double line appears, as there sometimes does. When the stars appear in this line, it is a signification of great losses and calami- ties ; if on it there be the figures of two O’s or a Y, it threatens the person with blindness; if it wraps itself about the table line, then does it promise wealth and honour to be. attended by prudence and industry. If the line be cut and jagged at the upper