Palmistry, otherwise called palm perusing, chiromancy, or chirology, is the act of fortune-telling through the investigation of the palm. The training is viewed as everywhere, with various social varieties. The people who practice chiromancy are by and large called palmists, hand perusers, hand experts, or chirologists.

There are numerous and frequently clashing — translations of different lines and palmar elements across different lessons of palmistry. Palmistry is drilled by the Hindu Brahmins and is likewise by implication referred to in the Book of Work. The logical inconsistencies between various understandings, as well as the absence of proof for palmistrys expectations, have made palmistry be seen as pseudoscience by scholastics.