Hookland 5/1/21 21:20:59

Many of the itinerant cattle healers make great use and display of rods of ash in their consultations. However, most agree this is to distract from the tinctures given to the beasts which actually bring about the cure. – Dr. John Thistlewood, ‘The Feral Faith’, 1856

Hookland 5/1/21 22:43:46

The cunning folk call it ‘the burning hand’ – that form of reading palms that does not rely on learning a map of symbolic lines, but rather calls forth those lines as living paths of fire. The Romanichal know it too, know its fearful accuracy. – #CLNolan

Hookland 5/1/21 22:57:30

@mandrakeandmarj Yes, it is a thing. There is chiromancy and their is hand-reading where the palm is the focus for what some would call psychic revelation in the same way many tarot readers would say the cards are a focus for them, not a learned set of symbolic reductions.

Hookland 5/1/21 23:18:00

@PhilH86835657 A little bit of pose plastique via a dramatisation of the Cleveland libel trial as part of the weird 1973 Barlow and Watt Jack the Ripper documentary from the BBC. https://t.co/Jhth3jfGAI