Palm reading aka palmistry is a discipline of fortune telling by a fortune teller through palm line reading. Also called chiromancy, chirology and hand analysis, its history can be traced back to as ancient a period as that of the Hindu sage Maharshi Valmiki - the author of the famous epic cum the most popular religious book of the Hindus named Ramayana - who wrote about the subject as jyotish (Sanskrit) around 5,000 years ago in India from where it spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, Persia and to other countries in Europe.
Modern contributors to the discipline have also been working since as long back as 1839 when Captain Casimir Stanislas D'Arpentigny published La Chirognomie, followed by Adrien Adolphe Desbarolles who published Les Mysteres de la Main in 1859, by Katherine Saint-Hill who founded Chirological Society of Great Britain in 1889, by Edgar de Valcourt-Vermont who founded American Chirological Society in 1897, by Count Louis Hamon (famous as Cheiro) who published Cheiro's Language of the Hand in 1894, by William Benham who published The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading in 1900, by Charlotte Wolff who published many works between 1936 and 1969, by Noel Jaquin who again published many works between 1925 and 1958 contributing to scientific chirology, and by Arnold Holtzman who worked a lot on psychodiagnostic chirology.
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