Myths & mysteries
Fortune-telling palmistry started in ancient India and was popularized by people pretending to be Egyptian
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Why admit you're a traveler from India when you can pretend to be a mystical Egyptian and scam European aristocrats? Palm reading was practiced in ancient Eurasia but was aggressively commercialized in Europe by the Romani people. To sound more exotic to gullible lords, they marketed their skills as secret wisdom handed down from the Pharaohs, which is literally where the word 'Gypsy' mistakenly came from.
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