Hand type
Psychic hand
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In an older source
The most beautiful but the most unfortunate of the seven is what is known as the psychic
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
Cheiro 1897 describes the psychic hand as long and narrow, with extremely long tapering fingers. He calls it the idealistic hand and draws it on Plate VI. His verdict on it is the quoted sentence above, which is his opinion and not a measurement.
D'Arpentigny's list, translated in 1886, has the Psychic or Pointed hand in the same sixth place. Cheiro says the conic hand is often taken for this one. Benham 1900 gave up whole-hand shapes, though he keeps a pointed fingertip as one of his four classes.
Cheiro returns to this shape when he treats the minor lines. In his account the line of intuition is found on it more often than on most types, and the girdle of Venus belongs mostly to it and the conic hand. Both of those lines have pages on this site.
Where this text comes from
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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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