Part 7 (1/2)

142. If the thumb sticks up in the closed fist, you are either capable or honest, probably the latter, as thieves are said to double theirs in.

_New England._

143. If you cannot make your thumb and one finger meet around your wrist, you are a glutton.

_Province of Quebec._

144. If you cannot touch the tips of your little finger and first finger together behind the two middle fingers, on both hands, then you will not marry the man you want to marry.

_Province of Quebec._

145. Clasp your fingers, and if the right thumb lap over the left you were born in the daytime. If the left overlap, you were born at night.

146. The number of folds on your wrist as you bend your hand shows the number of thirties you are to live.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._

147. If the ends of the fingers are capable of being bent far back, it indicates a thief.

MOLES.

148. A mole on the eyebrow denotes that one will be hanged. On the ear it denotes that he will be drowned.

_Chestertown, Md._

149. Mole above breath Means wealth.

150. Moles on the neck, Money by the peck.

_Prince Edward Island and Northern Ohio._

151. A mole on the neck indicates that its owner will be hanged.

_Boston, Ma.s.s._

152. A mole on the side of the neck means a death by hanging.

_Central Maine._

153. A mole on the arm indicates riches.

_Boston, Ma.s.s._

154. Mole on your arm, Live on a farm.

_Alabama._

155. A mole on the arm means that you will fight many battles, and will be very successful in them.

_Prince Edward Island._

NOSE.

156. A vein across the nose is an omen of short life.

_General in the United States._