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.
Terminating abruptly, with a few short parallel lines - Sudden death. If the short parallel lines are not there death may not be sudden but it will take place at the date indicated on the Line, if the marking- is repeated in both hands.
Terminating abruptly, with a black dot at the end - Death by accident or violence. (If repeated in both hands and with other indications..)
Forked at the termination- - General weakening of the system; more rarely: overwork and old age accompanied with poverty.
Forked at the termination, the prongs more widely separated - Rheumatism; more rarely: the lite will end in poverty away from the country of one's birth.
Forked at the termination with a long prong crossing the Mount of the Moon to the Percussion - Long voyages or distant traveling.
in healh matters I have often read this indication successfully as meaning bladder trouble or diabetes.
Forked at the termination, one prong running to the Line of Fate and merging into it - Dull, vegetative ending of the life.
Of course in this case, as in all similar ones, the date must be read on the Line of Life - where the prong leaves the main Line - and not on the Line of Fate.
Terminating in a series of crosses, in both hands - The subject in spite of an amiable disposition and some talent, will succeed in nothing and have a long period of ill health and poverty in old age. If in one hand onlly - Amiability and talent, Tasseled at its extremity - Poverty through loss of money late in life. General weakening of the system.
Tasseled at its termination, one of the tassels going deep into the Mount of the Moon - Prospective insanity; probably of a senile character.
At the termination of a short Line a number of Capillary lines gradually appearing and gaining in strength - The bad omen indicated by the short line has been annulled by much care and precaution.
 
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