BUY Moles and their Meaning today.
This little book is something of a classic of its kind. It first came to my notice through Ash and Lake's Bizarre Books (1985, 1998), an admirable publication which I strongly recommend, though its authors take a fairly light-hearted approach to their material, eschewing any more profound analysis such as that universally applied here.
Harry De Windt had previously written a number of works of travel and adventure, including Finland as it is, From Pekin to Calais by Land and Through Savage Europe. This, though, seems to be his only venture into the field of divination and he brings to it an unusual sensibility. Although this is a cheap little volume (original price 1/6), uniform with such dispensable items as Pearson's Dream Book and Hands and How to Read Them, De Windt strikes a scholarly pose, invoking the ancient physiognomists Richard Sanders (1613-1687?) and Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) in support of the seriousness of his work.
Silly ideas are made no less silly because some gentlemen long deceased once wrote books about them. Be that as it may, the essential concept presented here is that:
... every mole upon the face of man or woman has upon some other portion of the body a corresponding birthmark, the position of which can generally be located with startling accuracy.
Sanders, whom De Windt quotes in a prefatory note, put the same idea more quaintly - if not convincingly:
Nature doth represent the merchant, who having stored his shoppe with all sorts of ware, finds it inconvenient to bring it all to the open window to be seen, (it being indeed impossible) but exposeth to the open view, some small quantity of everything by which may be judged what is within. Thus from the moles in the face, (as in a compendium or index to the whole volume of the body,) we find the other moles of the body, and derive a certain judgment therefrom.
(Weird punctuation uncorrected). So in fact it is not the moles on the face that have a meaning, it is those other moles somewhere else, usually covered by one's clothing and hence not available for inspection, that are significant. The facial ones simply tell the informed “moleosopher” where the meaningful ones are lurking, so they can be interpreted. If this were not enough, then any doubts as to the worth of De Windt's thesis are dispelled by the prognostications he gives for each possible position for a mole, using the numbering system presented on his “face chart”, as in this very typical example:
NO. XXI
Facial position: Bridge of nose
Presumptive sister-mark: Right thigh, just below the groin.MALE
Honey-coloured: “A man of singular good wit, happy in getting goods. It promiseth inheritance, the favour of superiors and the like.”
Black: Peril of a fatal but lingering malady connected with the stomach and liver, which will only be averted by great care in diet.FEMALE
A frail, delicate constitution. Some peril connected with childbirth. “Take notice in this type of one secret I glean from Baptista Portae's 'Natural Magick.' If she be corrupt, the grissel at the end of the nose is cut, as it were, or separated from the bone.” Let such an one wear light blue gems and take heed of the fourth day of the month of her birth.
Astral domination: Saturn and Mars.
You will notice that, as De Windt explains, “in women the colour of a mole has no significance, but in the opposite sex it must be closely studied in diagnosing the character and future” - which is rightly in keeping with the arbitrariness and irrationality of the work as a whole.
To avoid any suspicion of prejudice, though, let us put De Windt to the test. Until it was removed by surgery the singer Enrique Iglesias had a mole on his right cheek, near to his nose. What did it say about him? The mole was “honey-coloured” rather than black, and it appeared at position 54 in the face chart. Here's what De Windt says about such a case:
Denotes misfortune, but only at an advanced age. Youth and middle age shall be peaceful and prosperous. This sign is specially favourable to the knowledge of secret and occult things - a marvellous and intuitive reader of human character.
Its “presumptive sister-mark” is this time “under the left armpit”. I can't find a picture that shows that area of Signor Iglesias and anyway he might have had that mole removed, too. (Damn these modern advances, that make divinatory work so tricky!) Still, I think you'll agree that De Windt's assertion that Enrique is “prosperous” is accurate, even, one might say, “spot on”!
Finally. whether you believe in De Windt's method or not, I think we should all make a point in future - just in case - to inform every woman we meet who has a mole at the corner of her left eye, that, while we are aware that she is “incapable of fidelity”, she should still take care to “beware of the lightning”, as the book says. (Good advice is always welcomed, isn't it?)
Thank you
Thank you
Don't listen to that man! He
Don't listen to that man! He is a very devil in almost-human guise.
Untrue! I am only barely
Untrue! I am only barely slightly devilish.
I having black mole on my
I having black mole on my left hand pinky finger's top. what does the mean? please... reply me as soon as possible
I've consulted all the
I've consulted all the authorities very carefully and I have come to the following conclusion: a black mole on the top of your left hand's little finger means that you are open to new ideas but afraid of what other people think about you.
i have mole on my penis in
i have mole on my penis in triangle shape
The book is clear on this one
The book is clear on this one. Any mole in a triangle shape means that you are definitely a witch and need to surrender to the Inquisition right away. If it's any consolation, you have the power of flight, being made of wood, and the ability to make severed penises move.
i have big mole on my right
i have big mole on my right thigh it is nearly 1feeat mole
Holy shit you have cancer
Holy shit you have cancer
i have mole on my mid of my
i have mole on my mid of my eyebrow
You are obviously a pervert.
You are obviously a pervert. No doubt about it.
my son left thing back said
my son left thing back said Big Mole on om word with before birth
i have a black medium sized
i have a black medium sized mole on my penis.what does it indicate? i have heard that people having mole on penis will have extra-maritial relationships. is that true??
Yes, your molology indicates
Yes, your molology indicates that you are obviously a drooling pervert who wants to have sex with everything in sight. We recommend chemical castration.
Dear,
Dear,
Recently i got a mole on right hand finger.
the exact location was on middle of top part of inner thumb finger,
what it means? can u please let me know?
I have a mole on my left hand
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