Mark
Island
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 island is not a fortunate sign
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
Cheiro 1897 says an island belongs only to the line or part of the hand where it sits. On the fate line he reads it as a heavy loss in worldly matters, on the sun line as a loss of position and name through scandal, and on the marriage line as great trouble and a separation while it lasts. At the very start of the life line he reads some mystery about the person's birth.
An island on a mount is a fault in Benham 1900 as well, one of five signs he treats that way. Several of the old books also made islands into health signs, which this page passes over.
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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