142. If the thumb sticks up in the closed fist, you are either capable or honest, probably the latter, as thieves are said to double theirs in.
New England.
143. If you cannot make your thumb and one finger meet around your wrist, you are a glutton.
Province of Quebec.
144. If you cannot touch the tips of your little finger and first finger together behind the two middle fingers, on both hands, then you will not marry the man you want to marry.
Province of Quebec.
145. Clasp your fingers, and if the right thumb lap over the left you were born in the daytime. If the left overlap, you were born at night.
146. The number of folds on your wrist as you bend your hand shows the number of thirties you are to live.
147. If the ends of the fingers are capable of being bent far back, it indicates a thief.