Palmistry is the practice of interpreting character and telling fortune by examining the lines,and other features such as mounts on a person"s palm.The four main lines are claimed to relate to vitality of life(Life line),emotional security (Heart Line).intelligence(Head lines), and to external influences that might affect your life ( Fate line). Palmistry is divided into two section Cheirognomy Cheirogmancy The first deals with the shape of the hand and fingers and relates to the hereditary influence of character and disposition and the second to the lines and markings of the palm to the events of past, present,and future.Research in this field is still going on to make it a perfect system or science of fotune telling.But it is really a point of mystery that every one s lines in the palm is different from others.It is believed that palmistry originated in India with its root in Indian Astrology. We can also trace its root back to Greece from Aristotle(384-322 B.C.E.).A treatise on this subject was found on the altar od Hermes then it was transfered to Alexander The Great.(356-323 B.C.E.).who took great interest in examining the character of his officers by analysing the lines on their palm.Aristotle firmly told -Lines are not written on human hand without reasons.Hippocrates and Alexander The Great popularized the laws and practice of palmistry. Now practice of palmistry is spread all over the world. Renowned palmist Cheiro who learnt palmistry in India where he is believed to have read ancient scripture on palmistry.Comte C.De Saint- Germain and Adolf Desbarolles also made a good effort in popularizing the Palmistry. Scientific Trials on Palmistry-- Cheiro writes in his book Palmistry for Al, ;Meissner ,in 1853 proved that corpuscles or molecular substances were distributed in a peculiar manner in the hand itself. He found that in the tips of the fingers they were 108 to the square line, with 400 papillae that they gave forth certain distinct crepitations, or Vibrations, and that in the red lines of the hand they were found in straight individual rows in the lines of the palm.