Count Louis Hamon (1866-1936 AD) popularly known as Cheiro all over the world, who

predicted 14 years in advance that Czar of Russia would be beheaded (his prediction slip
is still preserved at the Moscow Museum), has given the salient features of the hands of
India’s Brahmins:-

They have philosophic hands — generally long and angular, with bony fingers,
developed joints and long nails. As far as success in the form of wealth is concerned, it is
not a favourable type to have; it gleans wisdom, rarely, if ever, gold. They are, as a rule,
students but of peculiar subjects. They study mankind; they know every chord and tone in
the harp of life, they plan upon it, and are gratified with its responsive melody more than
with the clink of coin. In this way, they have a different type of ambition. They like to be
distinct from other people and they will go through all kinds of privations to attain this
end but as knowledge gives power so does the knowledge of mankind gives power over
man.

Such people love mystery in all things. If they preach, they preach over the heads of the
people; if they paint, they are mystic; if they are poets they discard the dramatic clash and
colour of life for the visionary similes and vapourish drapings of the spirit. Theirs is the
peace of the aesthetic, theirs the domain beyond the matter; theirs the cloud land of
thought where the dreaded grubworm of materialism dare not follow. The Brahmans,
yogis and other mystics possess them in great number.

In character, they are silent and secretive, they are deep thinkers, careful over little
matters, even in the use of little words, they are proud with the pride of being different
from others, they rarely forget an injury, but they are patient with the patience of power.
They wait for opportunities and so opportunities serve them. They are generally
egotistical; more or less fanatical in religion or mysticism (Cheiro’s book of Palmistry,
Numerology and Astrology, page 53-55).