Philosophic chiromancy. Mysteries of the hand revealed and explained: the art of determining, from an inspection of the hands, the person's temperature, appetites, passions, impulses, aspirations, mental endowments, character and tendencies (1879)
Campbell, Robert Allen · Saint Louis, J. W. Campbell & co. · leaf 168
. An island on the material line shows gen-eral sensual impurity; the part of the palmwhere found indicating its peculiar character. On the vital line an island suggests brutalindulgences, lowering the vitality. On thethought line, in the plain of Mars, it gives ahint of a sanguinary disposition,… … Liases—Branches [1]. Island [2]. An island on the impulse line shows im-pure impulses, temptations to voluptuous dis-sipation, and refined or elegant debauchery. On the assimilation line, especially as ittends towards the mount of Mercury, anisland will suggest deception, cheating, in-trigue,…
Palmistry
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