Hand type
Conic hand
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In an older source
The main characteristics of the conic hand are impulse and instinct.
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
The conic hand is medium-sized in Cheiro 1897. The palm tapers slightly, and the fingers are full at the base and conic, or slightly pointed, at the nail phalange. Plate V draws it. He labels it the artistic type.
He warns that it is often confounded with the psychic hand, which is the long narrow one with extremely long tapering fingers. His two descriptions differ in size and in how far the fingers taper. His main characteristics for the conic hand are impulse and instinct.
D'Arpentigny's translated list names the same type the Artistic or Conical hand. Benham 1900 treats the conic shape as a fingertip class only. He says the four tip classes (spatulate, square, conic, pointed) go by how each tip looks.
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- Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
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- d'Arpentigny, The Science of the Hand, trans. Heron-Allen (1886)
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- William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
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