(1) Palmistry, also known as chiromancy , is the practice of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the hands, particularly the palms.(2) Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy , the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses.(3) I remain open to the possibility that the ancient Vedas, Hyperboreans, or Druids might have enjoyed some special power of awareness through their skill at chiromancy , crystal gazing, or navel contemplation.(4) Smith's collage imagery in this film more directly alludes to his particular interests, drawing as they do on ‘Cabalistic symbolism, Indian chiromancy […] dancing, Buddhist mandalas, and Renaissance alchemy’.(5) These comparisons, like fortune-telling and chiromancy , or the interpretation of moral dispositions from the form of the hand, are to be classed among the aberrations of the human understanding.
