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Palmistry

Matched in: Term Palmistry

Palmistry

Matched in: Term Palmistry

Discriminal

In palmistry applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm

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Chiromancy

practice of foretelling events or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand palmistry

Palmister

One who practices palmistry

Fortune-tellers

rogues and vagabonds under the Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4. See, further, GYPSIES; PALMISTRY; and VAGRANT.

Gypsies

and use great, subtle, and crafty means to deceive the people, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell men's and women's fortunes; and so many times by craft and subtilty have deceived the people

Sorcery

sorcery, etc., shall suffer one year's imprisonment on conviction. Persons using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive the people, are rogues and vagabonds, and to be punished with imprisonment and hard

Vagrants

idle and disorderly person. (2) Every person pretending to tell fortunes, or using any craft or device, by palmistry, or otherwise [this includes 'Spiritualism'-Monck v. Hilton, (1877) 2 Ex D 268], to deceive [see R. v. Entwistle,

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