The belief that
the hand and more particulary the lines and other markings on the palmes reveal both
character and future seems to stretch back into the Stron Age. Plam prints have been
discovered in caves areound the world wher paleolithic men lived, whcih may have been used
for palmistry.
The Palmists maintain that the of palmistry
originated in ancient Sumeria and Egypt. More definitely there are refernces to palmistry
in Indian literature of the Vedie period (c 1500BC )
and Aristotle in the fouth century BC wrote on it at length . Palmistry may have been
praticed throughout the Middle Ages, as a covert discipline; centainly it was condemmed as
a type of withherft in 17th - century England but at the same time it was being taught as
reputable discipline in Germiany at the |
