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8 A mole on the belly denotes the person to be addicted to sloth and gluttony.

A mole situated in the recesses which modesty conceals from view, as not to admit of being discovered but by another; and yet to have a mole so placed is the most fortunate for them.

Palmistry is the art of reading the fortune from the lines of the hand, which are as follows:—

The line of life reaches from the wrist almost to the root of the fore finger. The table line is in the middle or table of the hand, and in some hands runs along the four mounts, partieipatingparticipating [sic] of the influence of the respective planets governing them; the middle running across the hand, and sometimes obliquely, it takes its beginning at the rising of the fore finger, near the line of life, ending at the mount of the moon. The line of the brain usually called the liver line, reaches to the table line, making a triangle thus, ∆. The girdle of Venus begins near the joint of the little finger, and ends between the fore finger and middle finger. The line of death or great misfortunes, when it appears plain, and therefore it is called the sister line, ending at its end and the pereussionpercussion [sic], is between the mount of Venus and that of the moon; the wrist lines eommonlycommonly [sic] ealledcalled [sic] Roseata, are known by the joints that part the hand.

There are many letters often formed in the hand, called sacred characters, and of these I shall speak, as they relate to good or bad fortune:—An A found between the mount of the moon and hollow of the hand, denotes sickness and losses; if it appear toward the mount of Venus, it denotes success in love affairs, and prosperity. If a T be on the mount of Venus, it denotes success in love affairs; but if it eomecome [sic] so low as to eutcut [sic] the line of life, then it denotes erossescrosses [sic] and misfortunes in love, and much mischief. A P on the ball of the thumb denotes honour and preferment, Q in the angle or hollow many marriages, and X vexation and trouble.

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