"Speaks from the grave?"  From Armstrong's 1995 yearbook.

An Ex Libris from Central Washington's 1938 yearbook.

From Moving Picture World, 1921.

From Dictionary of Superstitions by Cécile Donner and Jean-Luc Caradeau.

Our wizardly friend Gordon once had eleven fingers in a nightmare.  When he woke up and starting counting to reassure himself, his studies in arcane arithmetic came back to haunt him, as the math kept coming to "eleven."  When we encountered the strange hand in this ad from the University of the South's 1971 yearbook, we wondered how Gordon would fill in the circle over the thumb.

It didn't always mean "Live long and prosper."  From Kladderadatsch, 1927.

"The palm feels, thinks, talks, as the mouth can never speak.  It speaks truths that words could never express from lips.  It is the communicating medium of our most thrilling and lasting soul unions and spirit yearnings." —Joseph Bryant Hargett

The second and first plates of order.  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.

Are the lines of the palm actually the stems of flowers?  That's what we get from this drawing on the cover of Cultivating Thinking in English and the Language Arts, 1991.  See our own surprising study of palmistry: Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.

Looks spooky but is wonderful news: "I am the Man from Beyond.  I pass on my journey through the world and I secretly promise, by the power that has brought me back to this plane, to shower happiness and good fortune upon all who house me.  —The Man from Beyond."  From The Film Daily, 1922.

From Lehigh's 1916 yearbook.

From Manchester College's 1923 yearbook.

The warning ring.  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

We spotted this satiated alligator at our local concrete statue shop.