THE LEADING TYPES OF HANDS

THE LEADING TYPES OF HANDS

l attention to four categories of Finger
Tips: the Pointed, the Conical, the Square, the Spatulate. These—in their purity and without admixture of contrary elements— characterize respectively:
I.     The Psychic Hand (pointed),
II.   The Artistic Hand (conical),
III. The Useful Hand (square),
IV.   The Necessary Hand (spatulate). Giving them here the names adopted by d’Aipentigny himself. To those have to be added:
V.    The    Philosophical    Hand (knotted), which, as we know, presents itself with Tips of the conical or square, or spatulate shape;
VI. The Elementary Hand, and
VII.The Brutal Murder’s Hand, already much more mixed in their characteristics,   and,   in  many respects, returning to the lower animal features. Of the Elementary Hand, at its worst, I find two very close counterfeits in/
VIII. The Brutal Murder’s Hand, and
IX. The Congenital Idiot’s Hand. These lead me to those commonplace types of hands, which combine in their Finger Tips two, three and even four of the original four shapes:
X., XL, XII, and XIII, are descriptions of the hands most frequently met with among these Mixed Types. Finally XIV. The Woman’s Hand will give us an insight into the tendencies and most frequent characteristics of the weaker sex.