palmistry
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In Pasadena, Romani communities set up seasonal caravan camps, where Saar first encountered astrology and palmistry charts that inspired her interest in the unknown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
His now-defunct TikTok account, which has more than 300,000 followers, claims to make predictions based on astrology and palmistry.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
To say, as Fukuyama does, that “the desire for status—megalothymia—is rooted in human biology” is the academic equivalent of palmistry.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
The name came from a random page in a Victorian book of palmistry.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
At the closing banquet someone mentioned to Mikhail Tal that Bobby, who’d been studying palmistry, was reading the palms of other players, almost as a parlor game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
