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?)
My moles are in my arm , it
My moles are in my arm , it is in the middle of my arm... They are 3 ... And they form a triangle... What is the meaning of it?
I have a mole on the lower
I have a mole on the lower middlepart of my right hand thumb.Its newly seen since 4 months.what does it mean?
Pseudo maniac running about.
Pseudo maniac running about.....
Ppl plz stop describing urn moles
all u get is a bunch of jerks sparking a long run joke ...not finding any humor though
well,its quite embarassing
well,its quite embarassing but the self tested truth is- as frequency of masturbation has incresed,so have also black moles on my penis.. its easy to see- directing a lot of life force in certain circuits of the body does something in the etheric body to create black moles or energy flags made by oneself through present or past actions
Read my mole and I'll pay
Read my mole and I'll pay ANYTHING FRANCOIS!!!! NOT :P
Can you pay me in maple syrup
Can you pay me in maple syrup?
I have a dark black mole on
I have a dark black mole on my left hand middle knuckle. What does this mean?
Hi, anyone please help me as
Hi, anyone please help me as I'm getting scared. I have a mole in my left eyeball at the corner which is not very visible unless I rotate my left eyeball to my right. I have been reading up and they say it may have possibility that leads to violent sudden death!! Is it true?
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@Francois You fucking faggot
@Francois You fucking faggot
@Brad Do you kiss your mother
@Brad Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
Hi, anyone please help me as
Hi, anyone please help me as I'm getting scared. I have a mole in my left eyeball at the corner which is not very visible unless I rotate my left eyeball to my right. I have been reading up and they say it may have possibility that leads to violent sudden death!! Is it true? Please share your thoughts...
i have mole on upperside of
i have mole on upperside of my penis what does it mean please reply.......:)
Hi I have a 4 moles shaped in
Hi I have a 4 moles shaped in my arm. The one mole are in the center of my triangle moles shape. So it looks like a 4 trinagel mole shape in my right arms... what does it means ? Anybody knows about it? I'm just curious about it. Thanks ..