Cheiro
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Cheiro (1866-1936), was one of the most famous and colorful occult figures of the early Twentieth Century. Cheiro was a supposed clairvoyant who used palmistry (or cheiromancy), astrology, and Chaldean numerology, to make predictions, including world events. Born in Ireland as William John Warner, Cheiro also went by the name Count Louis Hamon, claiming a noble ancestry that may or may not have been accurate. His name, Cheiro, derives from the word cheiromancy.
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He had a wide following of famous European and American clients like Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, the Prince of Wales, General Kitchener, William Gladstone, and Joseph Chamberlain.[citation needed] He spent his final years in Hollywood, seeing as many as 20 clients a day and doing some screenwriting before his death in 1936.
Editions of many of Cheiro's books are still in print today in both English and foreign language editions and are available through major chains like Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com. They include his astrology book, When Were You Born?; Palmistry, The Language of the Hand (first self-published in 1897); Cheiro's Book of Numbers; Cheiro's Book of World Predictions; and Cheiro's Palmistry for All. No editions of his astrology book, You and Your Stars were found.
Cheiro's only work of fiction, "A Study of Destiny" (also published as "The Hand of Fate"), was first published in 1898. The University of Tampa Press issued a critical new edition in 2006. It is the second volume of Insistent Visions, a series dedicated to publishing little-known or neglected works of supernatural fiction, science fiction, mysteries, or adventure stories from the 19th century. The new edition is edited with an introduction, afterword, and notes by Sean Donnelly.
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- Cheiro. Palmistry for All, available at Project Gutenberg.
