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Black hair shows a person very amorous, but cruel and ungenerous.

Hair the colour of gold shows a treacherous person, arbitrary and proud.

Dark hair has the same signification. The perspiration of a red haired person is disagreeable.

Chestnut coloured hair, or dark brown, denotes a fair, just, and liberal person.


The Beard.


A thin soft beard shows a person lustful, effeminate, of a tender body, fearful and inconstant.

A red beard denotes the person courteous and friendly, a great flatterer, and very soon angry.

A dark beard is good, it denotes a person to be cordial, sincere, thoughtful and bold.

He that hath a decent beard, handsome and thick of hair, is good natured and reasonable.


The Chin.


A long chin denotes the person angry, and importunate in the use of words.

A little chin shows inveteracy and malice.

A round and thin chin is not manly, but womanish, and signifies boldness and much pride.

A square chin is manly, and denotes much courage and strength of body; and such persons are commonly given to words.

A round chin and dimpled, shows good nature, but much addicted to pleasure.

A lean wrinkled chin represents a cold impotent, and malicious person.


The Eyebrows and Eyelids.


A person having much and long hair on the eye brows, and both join across the nose, is a very simple person, but conceited in his own opinion.

When the eyebrows are short and heavy, it denotes the man good-natured and reasonable.