Palmistry is a form of pseudoscience that looks at your hand and tells you the future based on what you hand looks like. It's rejected by science but gullible people pay out good money to quacks who pretend to read their palms and tell their fortunes.
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| - Palmistry is a form of pseudoscience that looks at your hand and tells you the future based on what you hand looks like. It's rejected by science but gullible people pay out good money to quacks who pretend to read their palms and tell their fortunes.
- Palmistry dates back to the Ancient Egyptians and is therefore one of the oldest branches of psychoanalysis. It is the art of passing judgement on the magnetism (or not) of a person's personality, and inventing past and future lives for the person, by reading the palm and other parts of the person's hand. Various "lines" (e.g., the heart line, the head line, etc.) and "mounts" (bumps) suggest interpretations by their relative sizes, features, and intersections. If you can tell a good story, you can read a palm.
- Some sources say palmistry has its roots found in Hindu astrology, Chinese I Ching, and Romani fortune tellers.
- User can employ palmistry (also chiromancy/cheiromancy, chirology, palm reading), a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand through the study of the palm. Various "lines" ("heart line", "life line", etc.) and "mounts" (or bumps) (chirognomy) suggest interpretations by their relative sizes, qualities, and intersections. In some traditions, readers also examine characteristics of the fingers, fingernails, fingerprints, and palmar skin patterns (dermatoglyphics), skin texture and color, shape of the palm, and flexibility of the hand.
- Characters with this skill can interpret the lines on a character's hand and make predictions about health, romance, destiny, and life expectancy. They have acquired the skill of reading palms, possibly from travelling or circus people. Palmistry is a form of Divining mainly used for entertainment, enabling the character to earn a little money, much as would a street musician. Characters with this skill have a +10% modifier to Busk tests. See Divining for more detail on divinations possible with palmistry.
- Palmistry is the art of predicting events in the future through the study of the palm. It involves the studying and interpretation of one's palm lines. Palmistry, also known as chiromancy, is taught to the third-year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter and other students in his year learned from Professor Trelawney as part of Divination class in 1994.
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| - Sybill Trelawney reading Hermione's palm.
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| - Palmistry is a form of pseudoscience that looks at your hand and tells you the future based on what you hand looks like. It's rejected by science but gullible people pay out good money to quacks who pretend to read their palms and tell their fortunes.
- Characters with this skill can interpret the lines on a character's hand and make predictions about health, romance, destiny, and life expectancy. They have acquired the skill of reading palms, possibly from travelling or circus people. Palmistry is a form of Divining mainly used for entertainment, enabling the character to earn a little money, much as would a street musician. Characters with this skill have a +10% modifier to Busk tests. On a more practical note, characters can actually learn information about other characters. The gamesmaster decides what information the character discovers and they should present information in a fairly ambiguous manner, yielding useful information if the circumstances are right. Information could be about personality, intentions, or family detail. See Divining for more detail on divinations possible with palmistry.
- Palmistry dates back to the Ancient Egyptians and is therefore one of the oldest branches of psychoanalysis. It is the art of passing judgement on the magnetism (or not) of a person's personality, and inventing past and future lives for the person, by reading the palm and other parts of the person's hand. Various "lines" (e.g., the heart line, the head line, etc.) and "mounts" (bumps) suggest interpretations by their relative sizes, features, and intersections. If you can tell a good story, you can read a palm.
- Palmistry is the art of predicting events in the future through the study of the palm. It involves the studying and interpretation of one's palm lines. Palmistry, also known as chiromancy, is taught to the third-year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter and other students in his year learned from Professor Trelawney as part of Divination class in 1994. In 1996, Harry sat his Divination OWL, which involved palmistry as its last part. As with the rest of his Divination exam, this part went very badly; he mixed up the life and head lines in his examinator's hand, thereby informing her that she ought to have died the previous Tuesday.
- Some sources say palmistry has its roots found in Hindu astrology, Chinese I Ching, and Romani fortune tellers.
- User can employ palmistry (also chiromancy/cheiromancy, chirology, palm reading), a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand through the study of the palm. Various "lines" ("heart line", "life line", etc.) and "mounts" (or bumps) (chirognomy) suggest interpretations by their relative sizes, qualities, and intersections. In some traditions, readers also examine characteristics of the fingers, fingernails, fingerprints, and palmar skin patterns (dermatoglyphics), skin texture and color, shape of the palm, and flexibility of the hand.
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