Rascette lines (wrist creases) - do they predict longevity?

Wanderer78 wrote:Hello,

Last year I was at a party and a 22-year-old girl was going around "reading palms", but really only telling people how old they'd be when they would die and possible health problems - she said I needed to look out for my heart. Everything was negative. At first I dismissed this but now it's really bothering me. Incidentally, she told me and another guy 65, while some others got 75 or 85. Likewise she claims that her palm says she'll live to between 90 and 100.

Then about a month ago I asked her what she was basing this on. After claiming that she has read dozens of books and given presentations and blah blah blah, she said that she was basing it on the older tradition of 30 years per rascette. But the curious thing is that she doesn't count the first one. I have looked everywhere to find any reference for this but can find none. In fact most of the sources I have looked at say that such a practice has long been defunct. And when I look at others' rascettes, by that interpretation, some people should already be dead. Has anyone heard of this not counting the first rascette? Could there be anything else that might reveal such information?

Also, is it even possible for someone to tell this information from palmistry?

Thank you.

zeblethai wrote:

I have also observed that this particular crease (in combination with other markings) can relate to fertility.

Hi Patti, I have read that if the first rascette is bent upward in the wrist it means (in woman) a difficult birth. What would it mean in a man, infertility?

Wanderer78 wrote: Even though the practice is no longer really used, have you ever heard of anyone not counting the first rascette line right at where the palm meets the wrist as part of it.

Wanderer78 wrote:Cool. Many thanks again. I gotta say, for some reason this whole thing made me really anxious. It's good to know that there are good people out there with good information. Not really sure how this girl is cool with potentially scaring people by telling them their death years, but it sounds like it's all nonsense anyway.

Wanderer78 wrote:Hello,

Last year I was at a party and a 22-year-old girl was going around "reading palms", but really only telling people how old they'd be when they would die and possible health problems - she said I needed to look out for my heart. Everything was negative. At first I dismissed this but now it's really bothering me. Incidentally, she told me and another guy 65, while some others got 75 or 85. Likewise she claims that her palm says she'll live to between 90 and 100.

Then about a month ago I asked her what she was basing this on. After claiming that she has read dozens of books and given presentations and blah blah blah, she said that she was basing it on the older tradition of 30 years per rascette. But the curious thing is that she doesn't count the first one. I have looked everywhere to find any reference for this but can find none. In fact most of the sources I have looked at say that such a practice has long been defunct. And when I look at others' rascettes, by that interpretation, some people should already be dead. Has anyone heard of this not counting the first rascette? Could there be anything else that might reveal such information?

Also, is it even possible for someone to tell this information from palmistry?

Thank you.

Hello Wanderer78,

I can only advice you to ignore all predictions made by this 22-year old palm reader - let me explain:

First of all, your report about her 'party-readings' sounds to me like a clear act-of-irresponsibility - because from you words I can tell that this rather young palm reader has not shown any awareness for the psychological effects of her rather naieve readings.... nor did she take any responsibility for her predictions-of-doom!.


Now, where does this 'theory' come from?

I can tell: this is a typical result from reading 'old' palmistry books that propagate superstitious believes about death & doom. But even Benham & Cheiro have warned that far most of those theories about the bracelets (wrist creases) are not accurate at all!

So, this far too young palm reader has basically only 'predicted'... SUPERSTITIOUS NONSENSE resulting from palmistry-folklore!!


Unfortuntely, the sad thing is that most books about hand reading do (edit) not describe the sources of theories - resulting in that it is very hard to discriminate folklore-based theories from theories that have at least partly been confirmed by (scientific) research.

I really hope that this will make sense for you, because I think this feedback should be enough to recognize that you simply better stop 'wandering' about these life-time predictions.

Anyway, thank you for sharing your experience!

Hi Zeblethai, it would be interesting to hear more about some of the examples you mention in Fred Gettings. It is years since I read his books. Would you like to start a new discussion about it?

Patti wrote:

zeblethai wrote:

I have also observed that this particular crease (in combination with other markings) can relate to fertility.

Hi Patti, I have read that if the first rascette is bent upward in the wrist it means (in woman) a difficult birth. What would it mean in a man, infertility?

I haven't heard or read how this upward bend would relate when found in a man's hand. I really don't pay much attention to the wrist creases unless questions about fertility are raised.

In one of my weekly classes many years ago, there was a holiday break leaving a couple of weeks between classes. One of my students had an emergency hysterectomy in that time period and came to the next class with bruises on both her wrists. I first assumed that was where she had IVs inserted, but then she showed me the back of her hands where it was obvious that the IV needles had been inserted there and not on her wrists.

I thought it was fascinating and confirming that the discoloration appeared on her wrists that related to her surgery.