Talk:Cheiro

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ok. here we go. I have the book in my hands. I bought it in a second hand shop 10 years ago.

• Title - Cheiro's Book of Numbers: The Complete Science of Numerology - How numbers affect your health, fortune, life, marriage
• Author - Cheiro (Count Louis Hamon)
• Publisher - Arco Publishing, Inc. 219 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10003.
• Year - ?? (Questionable)... Copyright 1964 Arco Publishing; Tenth Printing 1986.
• Library of Congress Catalog Card Number - 64-11269
• ISBN - 0-668-01170-X

Notes

After doing an initial google search with 'Chiero' it seems there are lots of references to him as a psychic, seer, in association with Mark Twain, and others... Also links to holistic health centres, open books, and other sites not quite pertaining to the man Count Louis Hamon. The Preface is a pulp outline of his life and is unsigned by the contributor...

I'm going to copy out the Preface from the book verbatim, and go from there. I suppose there is always copyright to consider. All the links to websites and cut and paste articles and such... i dont know. I notice that the Publication of Darwin's theory has only one reference point; a book about Darwin. So I thought it ok to do the same here... copy verbatim. In light of the Darwin link, I am going to place the pseudoscience link in immediately so as not to seem like I am trying to peddle a view that numerology is hard science. Darwinism is hard to refute but that is another topic.I will make a few links to keywords in the preface to other wikipedia links.

There is a pencil sketch portrait of Hamon, I assume, opposite the title page of the book signed by 'R.O. Dunlop' ??? The tone of the preface is obviously celebratory (designed for pulp-readers?), but having it conform to the wikipedia NPOV rules will take some editing work. I'll put the NPOV at the header to highlight this fact.

So it begins... Feel free to add or completely change this content on a 'modern' contributor to numerology, palmistry and other arts.

I'm going to just set up a few sections and see what others do with it all.

Best of luck everyone

Peace and harmony Drakonicon 16:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Things I've Found Regarding this Person

Palm Art might offer some insight about this person. I still don't know much about who this Cheiro person is. I'll do my readings...--Lord X 17:35, 19 June 2006 (UTC)User:Xinyu

Thanks very much for that Xinyu! I'm going to simply copy and paste some info from that site to here, coz it quotable from a published book. I cant remember about copyright policy at the moment. If i need to delete, do it. Anyway, thanks a million. it will certainly help.

We learned a little bit about the fascinating rogue known as Cheiro on the previous page. Due to popular demand I've included more information about him for the enthusiast. Although his fame was worldwide, not everyone was intrigued by his expertise. Here's a quote from MIND MAP by Anthony Masters (Eyre Methuen, London,1980):

"He was the author of Cheiro's Language of the Hand, Cheiro's Guide to the Hand, You and Your Hand and Cheiro's Palmistry for All. All these books were historically inaccurate, and in the main, simply followed the theories of D'Arpentigny and Desbarolles. They made no contribution to the progress of science and the introduction to the books merely reflects an egocentric, if colourful, personality, one of whose major faculties was a great deal of imagination.

"Despite the bravura, however, Cheiro was a strangely intuitive palmist and surrounded himself with a group of public figures - all of whom were either vicarious or interested enough to make themselves subjects of this extroverted, intelligent showman. Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Joseph Chamberlain, Sarah Bernhardt, Gladstone, Dame Nellie Melba and Mark Twain were included among his clients. Nor were Cheiro's talents confined to the role of successful and highly paid palmist. Under another name he ran a profitable champagne business in France, was a reporter in the Russo-Japanese War, wrote screenplays for a period in Hollywood - and was a founder-member of the American Pacific Geographic Society.

"It would be wholly true to say that Cheiro discredited the reputation of chirology, yet he certainly did little to enhance it. Indeed, he fed off it successfully for a considerable period and the trappings of his fashionable consulting rooms (which looked rather like a turn of the century brothel), his snobbish personality and his eye to the main chance only served further to alienate serious scientific investigators."

I would like to say that I disagree with Mr. Master's opinion of Cheiro. He was recognized as one of the greatest palmists who ever lived by practically every respected authority. But, you can't please everybody!""

(from here http://www.jonsaintgermain.com/palm2.htm) - Inflammatory reading. He is certainly going to be tricky to define under wikipedia guidelines.Drakonicon 06:23, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

...and this......

"Psychic Count Louis Hamon or Cheiro

About the psychic Count Louis Hamon or Cheiro and some of his prediction right and wrong about the future.

Predictor: COUNT LOUIS HAMON (Cheiro) 1866-1936. Brilliant and charming bon vivant whose consultations were sought by the wealthy and famous.

Past Predictions:

--A year or 2 before each occurred, he foretold: the Boer War, death of Queen Victoria, assassination of King Umberto of Italy, and the day, month, and year of the death of King Edward VII.

--W.W. I. to break out in midsummer, 1914, and end in November 1918.

--Downfall of the Czar, and massacre of him and all his immediate family.

--Of the then Prince of Wales, later to be Edward VIII: "It is within the bounds of possibility... that he will in the end fall victim to a devastating love affair. If he does, I predict that the Prince will give up everything, even the chance of being crowned, rather than lose the object of his affection." Edward VIII did indeed give up his throne "for the woman I love," Wallis Simpson, and became the Duke of Windsor.

--For the years 1926-1930, he predicted that adverse conditions would strike almost every country and that unemployment would rise to the highest known level. Although failing to give the exact year, he foresaw the stock market crash of 1929 that heralded the Great Depression.

--India would gain her freedom, but "religious warfare will rend that country from end to end, until it becomes equally divided between Mohammedans and the followers of Buddha." India received her independence in 1947, and divided itself into Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan.

--Spain would have a dictator. Franco became dictator of Spain.

--Palestine would be returned to the Jews and be called Israel. In 1948, Israel proclaimed her independence.

Future Predictions:

--"Communism will spread like an infective fever through all the countries."

--"Russia will become the most dreaded power in the history of modern civilization."

--A dictator for France and "a new form of government for the time being will save France."

--"The U.S. is predestined to have dominion of the air" (control of outer space).

--China and Japan to unite and "will control that part of the globe."

--Armageddon to start in the area of Palestine (Israel).

© 1975 - 1981 by David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace Reproduced with permission from "The People's Almanac" series of books. All rights reserved. http://www.trivia-library.com/a/psychic-count-louis-hamon-cheiro.htmDrakonicon 19:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)"

No problem Drakonicon. Always available for service...meanwhile, I'll be attempting to work on this article amongst the ones that I've maded up due to mostly personal passion, or an effort to be an example of a role model Wikipedia (not to boast or anything of course, most of my subjects that I am writing about may be controversial, although not to the extremes like the hoax of the Apollo missions, or 9/11 conspiracy theories, or JFK assassination theories - very ambiguous). I hope our articles would turn out all for the good of Wikipedia, and follow the doctrine: "NPOV is Intellect."

Remember our debateable articles; 11 (numerology), 22 (numerology), 33 (numerology), and Master Numbers (Numerology).

Thanks, and no probleeemmo. --Lord X 00:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)User:Xinyu

Sad...

I find it sad that the fact that Cheiro had many famous clients is tagged with "citation needed." That is a well-known fact, just an OLD fact. Do folks tag wiki articles about Gaahl the Norwegian Black Metal singer "citation needed"? No, becase they KNOW about him -- he is currently alive. But Cheiro was once far more famous that Gaahl ... yet the pompous little fuddy-duddies tag any mention of his long-gone fame "citation needed" as if it were impossible that people like Mark Train and W. T. Stead could have consulted him.

I also find it sad that the page on Cheiro was tagged with the category "pseudo-science." (I removed the tag. It was reverted. I removed it again. I do not know what the status of that category tag is now, at the time you read this.)

That tag is just an insult. Cheiro never practiced any pseudo-scince. He was a palmist, an astrologer, and a numerologist. Let the man define himself and let his biographers define him -- do not let opponents of his arts define him by a slur. That's like tagging an article on circumcision "child mutilation" -- which is, of course, an opposing view, and not the category into which the article goes.

We all know that atheists and materialists disdain the arts of occultism -- but the subject of this article was an occultist. Live with it. There are other places to fight the battle of materialism versus magic -- this article is NOT such a place.

Found the citation, removed the now superfluous tag

That uninformed "citation needed" tag really bugged me, so, with a little searching, it was rectified. The evidence of Cheiro's famous clients is to be found in his own memoir, "Reminiscenses of a Society Palmist," which happens to still be in print. It even contains a glowing review of Cheiro's accuracy from none other than Mark Twain. So there you go. The article has been improved, the sad "citation needed" tag has been pulled down, and the wrld marches on.

The tags may be annoying, but they're vital. Any unsourced statement may be removed — that's how important citing sources is. The tags just indicate that an editor felt that the claim could use a source to verify it, which is very important on Wikipedia where anyone can say anything and pass it off as truth (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). At any rate, thank you for sourcing the statement. Samuel Grant 13:07, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

World War I

I recall reading in one of Cheiro's works that, in 1914, he conducted a number of consultations, over a short period of time, with an apparently random group of men, whose hands all "told" him that they were about to die. Apparently Cheiro became very angry, supposing that he had been "set up" by one or more of his professional rivals, as a joke, and that those rivals had each selected from their own clientele a man or men, whose hands had "said" they they were going to die. Whilst I can't recall whether or not Cheiro continued to read this sequence of palms until the last, I do recall him stating that he later discovered that all of the men had come to him of their own volition, and without the knowledge of the others, and that they were all members of the same regiment. The regiment was one of the first to fight in Europe, and the men who had visited him all died within a very short time of landing in Europe. Can anyone, please, locate this story for me in a published work of Cheiro (or some other person)?. Thank you.129.94.117.150 (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

improve

This article desperately needs improvements. Only one reference for such a long article is unacceptable. If half of this biography is true then sources should be found easily.

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MakeSense64 (talk) 11:29, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

No mention of his many victims?

Throughout his career "Cheiro" robbed many hundreds of people, and he was subjected to several police investigations as well as being revealed as a confidence man and "charlatan." Why is none of that included? --Desertphile (talk) 03:26, 28 November 2014 (UTC)