HAND

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• #138

  A straight line in the palm of the hand is an omen of early death.

  Massachusetts.
• #139

  The letter formed by the veins on the inside of the wrist is the initial of the name of the future husband or wife.

  St. John, N. B.
• #140

  A person with an initial in his hand will be very fortunate in selecting a companion for life.

  Alabama.
• #141

  In clasping your own hand, you put uppermost either your right or your left thumb. If the former, you are to rule; vice versa, you yield.

  Brookline, Mass.
• #142

  If the thumb sticks up in the closed fist, you are either capable or honest, probably the latter, as thieves are said to double theirs in.

  New England.
• #143

  If you cannot make your thumb and one finger meet around your wrist, you are a glutton.

  Province of Quebec.
• #144

  If you cannot touch the tips of your little finger and first finger together behind the two middle fingers, on both hands, then you will not marry the man you want to marry.

  Province of Quebec.
• #145

  Clasp your fingers, and if the right thumb lap over the left you were born in the daytime. If the left overlap, you were born at night.

• #146

  The number of folds on your wrist as you bend your hand shows the number of thirties you are to live.

  Massachusetts.
• #147

  If the ends of the fingers are capable of being bent far back, it indicates a thief.