physiognomy
My colleague asked me yesterday if I would be interested in attending a seminar on "face reading." This is an Ancient Chinese Artform (international law requires any Chinese Artform to be described as "Ancient;" it also requires any ancient artform to be attributed in some way or other to the Chinese) that interprets a person's future according to his facial composition. This got me thinking: imagine if someone went up to a face reader and the sinseh, without batting an eyelid tells the guy, "Wah, your future looks damn screwed up man."