How to Read

Palms in 40
Lessons
By Zancigs
FIRST LESSON
SECOND LESSON
THIRD LESSON
FOURTH LESSON
FIFTH LESSON
SIXTH LESSON
SEVENTH LESSON
EIGHTH LESSON
NINTH LESSON

TENTH LESSON
ELEVENTH LESSON
TWELFTH LESSON
THIRTEENTH LESSON
FOURTEENTH LESSON FIFTEENTH
LESSON
SIXTEENTH LESSON
SEVENTEENTH LESSON
EIGHTEENTH LESSON
NINETEENTH LESSON TWENTIETH
LESSON
TWENTY-FIRST LESSON TWENTYSECOND LESSON TWENTY-THIRD
LESSON TWENTY-FOURTH LESSON
TWENTY-FIFTH LESSON TWENTYSIXTH LESSON TWENTY-SEVENTH
LESSON TWENTY-EIGHTH LESSON
TWENTY-NINTH LESSON

THIRTIETH LESSON
THIRTY-FIRST LESSON THIRTYSECOND LESSON THIRTY-THIRD
LESSON THIRTY-FOURTH LESSON
THIRTY-FIFTH LESSON THIRTYSIXTH LESSON THIRTY-SEVENTH
LESSON THIRTY-EIGHTH LESSON
THIRTY-NINTH LESSON FORTIETH
LESSON

The palmist should sit directly

opposite the subject and in a
good light; and, I would advise
that no third person should
distract the attention of either

First of all see what particular

type the hand belongs to.
Notice the length of fingers in
proportion to the palm.
Examine first the left hand and
then the right, making the
latter the basis of your
reading. Examine every part of
the hand, color, skin, nails,
texture, front and back, before
speaking.
Next, notice the thumb,
whether it is long or short,

supple or firm. Next, see the

palm, whether it is dry, moist,
hard, soft or flabby.
Next, look at the mounts,
observing what ones
predominate, then proceed
with the lines, beginning with
the life line.
Always tell the general
characteristics before touching
upon coming events.
Make no predictions before

examining carefully the lines

on both hands to see that they
coincide.
Be very frank and sympathetic
with your subject. They may
be very skeptical and
sometimes rude, but that must
not affect vou. Remember that
any person or thing that
annoys you, rules you and has
power over you and weakens
the interest you take in the
subject before you, and the

adapted good manners are the

more successful and popular
which you should use to hold
the keys of the mysteries of
life, the secret and eventful
future of the person before
you.
Be careful you do not give a
misleading accuracy.
FIRST LESSON
The Mounts of the Hand

This hand is to explain the mounts, and

each lesson must be referred to this hand
until you get in your mind the map of the
hand and its lines, to know the position
they occupy.
Thumb
Will, Reason and Logic are found in the
thumb; the more one can bend the thumb
back, the more will power they have.
Venus is below the thumb, the higher
this mount, the more passionate one is.
Jupiter is next, the higher this mount the
more one will stand up for his rights.
Saturn is next, and the higher this mount,
means the person is scientific and will
be happy; if many lines cross together it
means misfortune.

Apollo or the Sun is next, means talent

and glory; if crossed by lines, failures.
Mercury is next; if this mount is high it
means a change of fortune.
Mars is next on the percussion, means
self-controlled temper. Moon, next, this
mount means presentiments and mental
trouble; there is found the suicide mark.
When the mounts lean toward one
another the qualities of each are blended
and developed in unison.

SECOND LESSON
This hand is to explain the fate line;
when this party first started out in life he
started in opposition to his wishes as
you will notice by the line starting from
the life line and turning toward the mount
of Luna (Moon) up to the twenty-seventh
year when there came a loss into his life
and then he started into another line.
At forty-seven he had several outside
affairs in his life through which he
gained.
The heart line shows where he had one
attachment in his life that went out and
where there will be two others.
One will pass out through financial
reasons.

The head line is fine which will be of

great help to him, showing him to be one
who always wants both sides to every
question, and great mentality and brain
power.

THIRD LESSON
This hand has some very peculiar lines
and the fate line going right straight up to
the mount of Saturn from the wrist shows
where there will never be but one
interest in life to the partyin a
business way.
He has married three times and his first
marriage was of very short duration and
passed out very suddenly.
The absence of the head line and the
wavery condition of the fate line would
indicate him to be of a weak character
were it not for his firm thumb.
The line crossing from the mount of
Venus ending with a star shows an

accident to one of the family, but it did

not end in death. His vitality lines are
good and shows where he lives on his
vitality and will power more than on his
physical strength.

FOURTH LESSON
The life line with the cross and
branching in the manner it does,
indicates trouble to the subject's parents,
in both illnesses and financially through
the influence of other people.
The line going from the mount of Venus
crossing through the fate and fortune line
shows the influence of a relative in the
life who has money and who will help
him at first, but as you see the lines cross
the drink lines, gambling and so forth,
showing the line to leave his life, and
where he will have to work for himself,
but without much success until he passed
his fiftieth year.

FIFTH LESSON
This is to show the peculiar heart and
head line, a most peculiar double head
line, with the cross lines making a
decided ladder in both ( this is the hand
of a minister.)
He was of a very melancholy tendency,
but the double line saved him, as you see
the two head lines are joined by
branches going up, and lines going up
are always good; it shows where he
gained and was able to climb the ladder
to success.
The lines going down on the heart line in
this hand are good, as he combined both

his heart and judgment in all decisions

and would not let his heart get the best of
him. The branch on the head line toward
the Rascette, shows where he had
commercial interests in his life, as well
as the professional lines.
He will die very suddenly at the age of
73 years. He also shows a very firm
thumb which will be of great help.

SIXTH LESSON
This hand shows a peculiar fate line, one
that up to the twentyeighth year will be
in one groove, then, from then on, his life
will have many and swift changes, but
very good ones
He will always be governed by his head
rather than his heart, for his heart line is
very poor, although as you see he will
marry twice, will raise two children and
lose one.
At his thirty-fifth year he will go through
a very severe illness and if it was not for
his vitality line having started in several
years before he would have passed out.

SEVENTH LESSON
The lines of this hand are very poor, it
shows the person to ruin their own life
by being of such a fickle tendency, one
who will always be in trouble
themselves and keep others there too.
The head line is of no help whatever as
it is very weak up to the forty-eighth
year, when he or she will realize that
their life has been wasted and their mind
affected.
The star on the finger of Jupiter shows
where they could have gained great
glory had they lived differently, and yet
the star at the commencement of the life

line shows it to be an inheritance, and

one not easily overcome as there are too
many stars and crosses where they are
not good.
The girdle of Venus is a drawback also,
with the triangle, as it shows
unhappiness.
The square on the life line indicates
where an illness was overcome, or will
be overcome according to the ageat
the forty-first year.

EIGHTH LESSON

This shows a very peculiar fate line

starting from the life line, with two
distinct branches showing the party on
first going into business for himself had
three decided things in view, the main
line going to the mount of Apollo shows
where you could gain, through the
professional field, the second one going
to the Mars mount, meaning success
through army life and the third toward
Jupiter means success in the commercial
or mercantile line.
Now the position that the fate line takes,
and with the branch- on the line
indicates where he gained through the
commercial and also the professional
line being a lawyer, the fork on the

fate line bringing two sources of revenue

into the life.

NINTH LESSON

This is to show where the double head

line saves the whole hand, as there is no
fate line whatever, but the head in
connection with the triangle and the good
heart line is very beneficial (this is a
banker's hand.)
His marriage line with the star at the end
of it shows where he gained through his
marriage.
The star on the mount of Saturn, or rather
between Saturn and Jupiter, means a loss
by fire which he sustained.
The star on the travel line on the
percussion indicates a loss through a
journey.
As is shown by the cross on the mount of
Venus shows where he will never have

but one love affair in his life.

TENTH LESSON
This shows the hand of a man who went
through life with but one strong
ambition, but through trusting other
people so much he was always losing.
In the first place he did not have the
advantages when he started out as his
environments and circumstances were
against him. He was tied down by family
ties and when he did start he was
handicapped by the influence of others.
Yet you can see he had a fine head line,
but he has no confidence in himself.
Notice his heart line with the twisted
branch, showing an attachment which

went out of his life and came back in

again. The two islands that you will find
on the mount of Venus indicate surgical
operations to some member of the
family, and the second one, with the
cross, ended in death.

ELEVENTH LESSON

This is to show the double fate line, the

smaller one of the two having a decided
half circle joined to it, with a star on the
line; a good speculator's hand, one who
can afford to take good chances and
risks; it also shows where he is a good
inventor, but a man who has let other
people benefit by him too much.
The heart line shows two attachments in
his life, but both pass out and he will
never marry.
The line coming from the life line,
crossing through the double fate, with the
crosses on it indicates an influence
which came into his life at his forty-sixth
year and through which he lost money.
His life line branching toward the

rascette shows where he will never die

in the same country he was born in.

TWELFTH LESSON
This is the type of a very deceitful
person and one who will both lie and
steal, as you will see by the cross and
square on the finger of Mercury, the low
drooping head-line and the branch of the
fate line going toward the rascette.
The fortune line is good, but with the
square and cross it shows where the
money they have in this world is gained
through false means
The position the head line occupies to
the life line indicates where he has good
confidence in himself.

THIRTEENTH LESSON
These are the only lines in the hand (and
you will find many such).
A very poor fate line and no head line,
but a very good heart line, showing
where the party is ruled exclusively
through the affections and not through the
head at all. The fate line indicates where
the subject will never make any success
in life at all, as the material world
predominates as you can see by the
mount of Venus.
He will marry twice, but never raise any
children, as shown by the marriage lines
on the Mount of Mercury.
The conjunction of the line of fate and on
Mount of Luna, the square again shows

the poor conditions of the fate line.

The circle on the Mount of Jupiter tells
against the success of the subject.

FOURTEENTH LESSON

This shows where the party started out

in life all right, but at his 18th or J 9th
year the influence of relatives came into
his life which was not good for him, as
for a period of ten years he had most
terrible ups and downs in the nature of
losses, deaths and so forth; but at about
21 he again started out for himself and
was successful.
The square on the mount of Luna is
preservation from an accident, but to
some member of the family, not to the
man himself.
His ambitions as you will see by his
heart line are very great, and he will be
successful in later years in gratifying

them.

FIFTEENTH LESSON

This shows a very peculiar life line;

from the subject's forty-third year to his
sixty-fifth year he was an invalid and at
the age of sixty-nine he committed
suicide; the lines joining the head and
life line show it to be an inherited
tendency, instead of a cultivated line.
His heart line is a protection in a very
small way, though, as you will see.

SIXTEENTH LESSON
This is to show the fate line, but through
both branches going toward mount
Jupiter he will be successful; through the
combined interest of friends and
relatives he will come out all right.
His head line is very wavery but he will
eventually make the right choice.
If this man lived to be a thousand years
old he would not be constant to any one
lovevery, very fickle indeed, and yet
never any trouble through it at all.
The start in life, as to the fate starting
from the rascette shows where he tried
to make a start for himself, but there was
too much against him.

SEVENTEENTH LESSON
This is the hand of a person who had as
good a figure and as healthy an
appearance as anyone could possibly
have, yet it shows where he passes out
very suddenly at the age of about thirtyeight, and through an accident, a railroad
accident it was. He was most happily
married and had four children.
You will find many such hands
indicating either a sudden or violent
death.
He has done much travelling in his life
as you can see.

EIGHTEENTH LESSON
This shows the peculiar located lines
for instance the head line with a branch
not joinedbut since it does not end
with a branch it is good but indicates
two interests in life, and where he will
be very successful as he has two crosses
on the mount of Jupiter.
He is one who will always want
everything proven up to him as he goes
along, but he is a man who should
cultivate his mentality and his brain
power more than he does as it is his
best. His fate line shows where he
started out in life in his own interests,
but had to have the help of others before

he was twenty-four years old.

The girdle of Venus shows where he
will have a very unhappy attachment in
his life, but from the other lines it is best
that the attachment went out of his life.

NINETEENTH LESSON

This is to show the medical lines, not

only as a physician, but as a surgeon, as
you will see the double line, joined at
the mount of mercury.
The head and heart line could not be
better and with the mystical cross you
show where you always go according to
your intuitions and you will always
come out best by doing so.
The fate line is as good as anyone could
have, but through the one interest in life
never mixing two or more things,
although later in life there will be
another interest come into your life
which will come out all right on account
of your using your own judgment, and

not following the advice of other people.

The sun, or fortune lineis fineshows
the success bound to come.

TWENTIETH LESSON

This is the hand of a very

impressionable person, one who takes
on the impressions and emotions of their
friends, and also of a nervous restless
tendency, one who lives more on their
vitality and will power than on their
physical strength. Notice the head line
it is one of a melancholy nature.
The heart line shows a flirty, fickle
nature up to the twenty-eighth year, when
there would be one come into the life to
whom they would be true, and according
to the star on the mount of Apollo and
Jupiter be very happy and successful,
and the line going up the same mount
from the heart line, shows it to be a
professional man. Through that love the

ambitions will be gratified, and one of

the main ambitions is to travel, which
will be as much by water as by land.

TWENTY-FIRST LESSON

This is the hand of a genuine Occult

person, and any one with this hand will
be the most successful of all in anything
pertaining to the occult or mystical, such
as Palmistry, Hypnotism, Astrology and
so forth. You will notice the line of
intuition, and the length of the little
finger, as they are very marked and in
fact very pronounced, also the mystic
cross, between the head and heart line.
Then look and see if the party has the
puffs on the finger tips ; if so, there is no
height in the occult they could not reach,
with perseverance. The square on the
head line shows an accident to the head
later in life, but it will not prove fatal.
The fate line shows two sources of

revenue in the life.

TWENTY-SECOND
LESSON
This is to show the peculiar markings of
this hand, the heart, head, and life line
with the mark on the mount Saturn which
means a loss by fire and yet the
protection where no lives were lost.
The fate line starting as it does from the
life line with a cross indicates where the
party started out in life through a great
difficulty and yet had someone come into
the life that would make them trouble
through jealousy and envy, the triangle
on the fate line indicates where the
subject very nearly lost his life, but
through his own diplomacy was saved.

TWENTY-THIRD LESSON
This fate line is one of the most peculiar
we have ever seen, it shows where there
is much jealousy in a business way, yet
with all that, there are three sources of
revenue in the life, the head line is what
has saved this party from the losses. The
most peculiar line or the oddest line in
this hand is the attachment or marriage
lines which you will notice to be very
odd and especially the first one showing
where the man married for social and
financial reasons, but where the line
goes out of the life, he will marry three
times.
Having a good rascette is one of the

good features of the hand.

TWENTY-FOURTH
LESSON
This is the hand of another peculiar fate
line, indicating where the party will
have many ups and downs in their life
for a period of twenty years, when things
brighten up for him and through the death
of a relative he will be able to gain his
desires and ambitions in life, and his
main ambitions in life is to be in public
life and he will be very successful there
as he is one who has the power of rule
and control over others, and after he has
passed his 40th year he will have two
interests in life in a financial way. Yet it
shows where both will be successful,
and where he will gain, but both lead to

the public life.

TWENTY-FIFTH LESSON
This man has a good head line yet he

shows where some member of the family

had committed suicide and it depressed
the subject very much, causing many
illnesses along the line, but from mental
worry, having a good fate line was his
only redeeming point.
The heart line was very good but the
party never married on account of the
suicide which had been, and as you will
notice it is in the left or inheritance hand
so that the subject need never be afraid
of insanity or suicide either.

TWENTY-SIXTH LESSON
This hand shows the peculiarity of the
head and fate line being the same, or
very similar and where the two lines
blend, showing that when the party starts
into anything new he, or she will never
start in without finding out all they
possibly can before doing so, a woman
with that hand will make a fine
housekeeper wanting everything just so.
In a business deal wanting full
particulars, details and so forth even to
the minutest details. Yet in later life it
shows where there will be two distinct
sources of revenue in the life and coming
through the brain and mentality more

than through manual labor. The heart line

is not good, for a period of several
years, and yet it does not show a fickle
tendency at all; but more a weakness of
the heart functions.

TWENTY-SEVENTH

LESSON
The odd markings in this hand we have
verified in many hands, in the first place
notice the cross on the mount of Venus, it
indicates where there was someone in
the home life that the subject did not get
along with as they should have done, yet
it does not always mean an enemy line.
The circle on the life line indicates a
death to some member of the family but
not to the subject themselves. There is
no fate line ; the peculiar curve you see
instead of the fate line is the most
peculiar I have ever seen, yet we have
found it several times, and always the
same; a person having many changes in

life, accidents, losses, blindness and so

forth, yet is never downed. An accident
by water, to himself alone, is indicated
by the star in the head line and the cross
between the mounts of Luna and Mars.

TWENTY-EIGHTH

LESSON
This is the hand of one of the brightest
women I ever met, and yet she has no
other lines in her right hand ; she is a
woman in public life and a woman who
is always governed by her head more
than by the affections, no matter what she
might think of a person, she would never
let it stand in the way of her promotion
in any manner whatever.
She has no heart line but two girdles of
Venus which are seldom ever found on
any hand. It shows a person who should
develop their talents and let love alone
as they will never find their ideal in love
no matter how long they may search.

The ending of the head line simply

shows the different interests in life in a
public way.

TWENTY-NINTH LESSON

This is the hand of a man who went

through one accident right after another
until he had gone through four. Then his
life was much more successful than ever
before.
His life will end with stomach trouble
and he will die very suddenly when he
does go. He has not the confidence in
himself that he should have and it makes
him changeable and wavery.
Notice the very good heart line with a
single marriage. He will never have any
luck as he is handicapped from birth in
every way possible.

THIRTIETH LESSON

Both head and fate lines of this hand are

very odd. The fate line shows where the
subject started out in life with the very
best in the land and had several sources
of revenue in his life, but at his twentyeighth year an influence came into his
life as the line from the life line crossing
up to the mount of Mercury shows, and
for a period of twenty years he will be
under that person's influence, when again
he will break away and go for himself
and as the line to the mount of Apollo is
the strongest, it shows where he will go
into a professional line and be
successful.

THIRTY-FIRST LESSON
This is to show the lines of social
ostracism, the island on the mount of
Jupiter indicates that, but with the square
under it, it shows where later in life he
will be able to reinstate himself and
even gain more social distinctions. The
island on the mount of Saturn indicates a
great danger that the subject will pass
through, and from the position of the
heart line it will not be very favorable
either.
The headlines in connection with the
other lines shows a change coming late
in life which will be very good, but after
the subject has gained more confidence

in himself.

THIRTY-SECOND LESSON

This hand is to show the heart line in this

state; it shows where there are three
attachments in the life and where there
will be financial reasons which will
intercede in one and the love of another
coming into the life which will change
the whole course of the subject's life.
As you will see by the mount of Venus he
is of a very passionate, loving,
affectionate nature, one who likes to be
loved and petted a great deal. His head
rules always, no matter what the
circumstance and he is one who always
wants both sides to every question, as
indicated by the mystic cross under the
heart line.

THIRTY-THIRD LESSON

This shows the hand of a person, no

matter what they may do they will
always be in trouble as they have not the
confidence in themselves they should
have and their drink lines are very
prominent, their affection lines do not
amount to much as they would never be
true to any one, and the very next person
that comes along has just as much power
over them as the one who just left their
life.
Mentally they are not very bright.
There was an accident by water which
should have ended by death but it did
not, but may later, as he shows many
water travels, as indicated by the cross
in the square on the mount of Mars.

THIRTY-FOURTH LESSON

This hand is to show the head line and

also the heart line, the heart line as it is
indicates very strong attachments which
will be in the life, but there will never
be but one marriage.
The head line is the very worst I have
ever seen, not only troubles with the
head but also with the eyes, and several
severe illnesses along the line, but all in
connection with the head or eyes.
When you see a hand like that is very
poor, and not to be depended upon in any
manner whatever, even the star markings
do not change much the unfortunate
influence.
The circle also indicates misfortune

making the subject go round and round in

a circle without being able to break
through and get free.

THIRTY-FIFTH LESSON

This hand shows the heart line to be in a

very odd condition; it shows a person in
the life and where they go out of the life
and come back into it three times.
The head line is very good and lends
strength to the character, which the heart
line lacks.
There will be three journeys and one
accident by water, as indicated by the
cross on the mount of Luna. This party
has a very high mount of ambition on
Jupiter and through the influence of two*
other people (as you will see by the
lines from the life line) he will be able
to gratify his ambition.
His rascette is good which shows he
will live to be very old and have health,
wealth and happiness.

THIRTY-SIXTH LESSON
The lines of this hand are all peculiar
and yet lines which you will find every
day.
Take first the life line; it shows where
there are sister lines and also vitality
lines and when the two are combined it
indicates an exceptional long life.
The fate line is very much against the
party so far as success goes, a loss at his
twenty-ninth year, then another loss, but
through the influence of other people.
The heart line shows where he had two
attachments in his life at one time and
where there was trouble through it, as
indicated by the two half circles under
Saturn and Apollo with the branch lines

on the fortuneApolloline, and the

square with the dot in it, always
indicating trouble.

THIRTY-SEVENTH

LESSON
This hand is to show the marked fate line
with the decided turn it takes about the
center of the hand ; then the branch on
the head line starting from the life line
going straight to the Apollo mount.
The fate line shows starting in life under
difficulties and very young, then at the
age of eighteen where there was another
interest came into the life and from
which he had money through two
different sources, then a loss came a few
years later, then another change, a new
enterprise which was good and where he
was on his way to make his fortune when
another loss came and all of the changes

came through himself, not through others,

then at twenty-seven he took a change
entirely out of the groove he was in and
his fate line turns right up to the ambition
mount, and the branch of the head line
goes to the mount of Apollo, combining
success, ambition, and public life, it is a
fine hand in every respect and a
successful one after the thirtieth year of
his life.

THIRTY-EIGHTH LESSON

This is the hand to explain the position

of these markings on the fate line and the
island on the mount of Jupiter, which
means social distinction gained through
their own merit and talent and not
through the help of anyone else.
Their talent is in the literary line, as
indicated by the stars on the mounts of
Mercury and also on Apollo.
The star in the center of the hand with no
connecting lines is only an indication of
a threatened danger to self.
The island at the commencement of the
life line shows a mystery at birth, but
since it is not at the other end of the life
line it shows where the subject may
never know it.

THIRTY-NINTH LESSON

The fate line in this hand shows where

the party started out in life with two
distinct interests but where through an
illness one interest went out of the life at
the twenty-sixth year, leaving but one
interest, and from then on a good many
changes and ups and downs were in his
life and then he shows the success after
his forty-third year.
At the age of forty-five there was some
great trouble in his life as to the
affections which causes him to be very
changeable and wavery, shown by the
horizontal line going over to the mount
of Venus crossing the square on the line
of life, a sign of preservation showing
that the subject was protected at that

particular time.

FORTIETH LESSON
This hand shows by the fate line three
distinct starts in life, one leads to the
professional line, one in the commercial
line and one in the public field.
The main fate line is very good and
especially with the adjoining lines, the
square on the mount of Apollo means
protection and shows where the subject
will be most successful in the
professional line.
The triangle on the mount of Saturn
between the branches of the fate line
will prove very good, although a triangle
is as a general thing not good, but you

show a very good line. There will be

someone connected with the party
drowned, as the cross in the circle
indicates, on the mount of Luna.