Vintage palm reading palmistry Hand Map Playing Cards

This palm reading guide is a great gift -- a vintage map of the hand -- it's great for fortune telling by looking at the lines in your hand! This palm map is actually an image from an antique book from 1902 called "Popular Amusements for Indoors and out of doors." The section is called "The Language of the Hand and what it reveals". It says, "Palmistry is divided into two technical sciences, known as chirognomy and chiromancy. Chirognomy is the science of determining individual traits and hereditary tendencies by studying the shape and pose of the hand. Chiromancy is the science of determining the acquired characteristics of a person, foretelling events, etc, by the study of the lines and markings to be found in the palm of the hand." So, that's what a palmistry practitioner does! They read palms!. This is a hoot -- a real honest to goodness vintage palm reader image that shows what the Victorians used to study with their old-fashioned parlour games! The map of the hand is the real deal -- from the Mount of Venus to will, logic, love, sympathy, to resistance, courage, and the plain of mars with is apparently temper. Everything you wanted to know about yourself can be told in the palm of your hand. This map of the hand gift is perfect for the fortune tellers in your life, and a great palm reading for parties!