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393:. He documented his sittings with these clients by asking them to sign a guest book he kept for the purpose, in which he encouraged them to comment on their experiences as subjects of his character analyses and predictions. Of the Prince of Wales, he wrote that "I would not be surprised if he did not give up everything, including his right to be crowned, for the woman he loved." Cheiro also predicted that the Jews would return to Palestine and the country would again be called Israel. 27: 528:
Died. Count Louis Hamon ("Cheiro"), 69, celebrated oldtime palmist; after long illness; in Hollywood. Author of a book on palmistry at 13, he amassed $ 250,000 from rich female clients, owned an English-language newspaper in Paris, The American Register. On the night he died, said his nurse, the
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It becomes a study not contrary to the dictates of reason, but in accordance with those natural laws that we observe in the shaping of the even inanimate objects, which, by demonstrating the effect of a heretofore cause, are in themselves the cause of a hereafter effect.
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His widow, the Countess Lena Hamon, said her 70-year-old husband, who had been a friend and adviser to film actors late in life, and to European aristocracy and royalty in his early career, had predicted his own death to the hour the day before he died.
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After some years in London, and many world travels, Cheiro moved to America. He spent his final years in Hollywood, seeing as many as twenty clients a day and doing some screenwriting before his death there in 1936 following a heart attack.
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Cheiro was reluctant to marry but was aware that he was destined to marry late in life. This did happen after a woman took care of him during a serious illness. A separate chapter is devoted to this matter in his memoirs.
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The occult books Cheiro wrote centred on fortune telling. Many of Cheiro's books on occultism and fortune telling are still in print today and are available in both English and foreign language editions.
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So popular was Cheiro as a "society palmist" that even those who were not believers in the occult had their hands read by him. The skeptical Mark Twain wrote in Cheiro's visitor's book:
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Cheiro had a wide following of famous European and American clients during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He read palms and told the fortunes of famous celebrities like
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Cheiro has exposed my character to me with humiliating accuracy. I ought not to confess this accuracy, still I am moved to do so. – Mark Twain
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The son of William Warner and Margaret Thompson Warner, Cheiro was born William John Warner in the village of
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As mentioned in his memoirs, Cheiro acquired his expertise in India. As a teenager, he travelled to the
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In 2006, the University of Tampa Press issued a critical new edition of his fictional work,
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to make personal predictions for famous clients and to foresee world events.
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includes a detailed account of one of Cheiro's palm readings with
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Cheiro's Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist
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port of Apollo Bunder. There, he wrote that he met his
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clock outside his room struck the hour of one thrice.
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in India. He was celebrated for using these forms of
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Cheiro's Memoirs: Reminiscences of a Society Palmist
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