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Bracelets
Everything here reports what named old books claimed about hands. None of it is a statement about you or about anything to come.
In an older source
The bracelets (Plate XIII.) I do not consider of much importance in reading the lines
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
The bracelets are the creases across the wrist, just below the palm. Cheiro 1897 counts three of them and Benham 1900 calls them rascettes, says there may be one to three, and puts his attention on the first alone. Both treat them as a minor matter.
Cheiro says he was taught to watch mainly the first bracelet, the one nearest the hand. He passes on, as he puts it, for what it may be worth, a belief tied to the first bracelet's height on the wrist and to health. Those claims belong to the old books and are not repeated here.
Benham reports a different tradition: earlier hand-readers, he says, gave a person thirty extra years for every bracelet. He looked for support and found none, so he leaves it out of his readings. Benham attributes it to older palmists without naming them, and this page does not use any claim about how long a life will run.
Features the books describe
One, two or three lines at the wrist
Benham 1900 says there may be three, or only one, and treats the first as the only one of value.
Source: William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
Where this text comes from
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- Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
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- William G. Benham, The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (1900)
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