CHEIROMANCY, the art of foretelling the events of life by the lineaments of the hand, derived its name from the Greek word chciros, the palm, and umnteia, to foretell, whence it has been vulgarly called Palmistry as it is named in a recent Act of Parliament to forbid its practice for gain or reward. In Coleman's Mythology of the Hindoos, it is written: "On the Buddha's foot is the mark called the 'chakravarti, ' wheel or discus, which should have been on the palm of the hand, by which the sages at his birth divined that he would rise to considerable eminence.