This section is from the book "The Practice Of Palmistry For Professional Purposes", by C. de Saint-Germain. Also available from Amazon: The Practice of Palmistry for Professional Purposes.
Extending around the Percussion, with a long, clear Line of Head and the upper Mount of Mars prominent - Daring spirit.
Remember that a fine Line of Heart gives you "a. heart for any daring enterprise;" does not courage come from the Latin Cor, which means heart? In this case it will give you coolness as well as bravery.
Completely encircling the Mount of Mercury at the termination - SinguIar aptitude for the occult sciences.
Forked at the Termination, with one prong deep into the Mount of Mercury and an island on the Line of Fate - A divorce, due to a guilty intrigue of the subject.
Very long and much frayed at the ter-mjjiation, or ending in a kind of tassel -For every little prong or branch a love affair of a minor importance.
This is more amusing than literally true; but this meaning stands for a wealth of affection, often quite prolific, as denoted by these many terminal prongs.
No fork at the termination - Childlessness.
 
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