As reading palms is called Palmistry, what is reading the bumps on the head called?

Answer 1

As others have mentioned it's called Phrenology.

Not the most accepted of practices now, but if you happen to turn into a homicidal maniac, just blame being dropped on your head as a child and get the court to feel your noggin. Case dismissed!!! Not your fault.

Maybe there's a place for it after all.

Answer 2

Associative logic requires the answer to be headistry. Though the answer could also be bumpistry (as reading palms is palmistry, reading bumps is bumpistry).

Of course phrenology was a bogus psychological branch that attempted to profile personality and traits by the shape and size of a person's head.

Answer 3

It's called Phrenology, as others have told you. It is way less interesting than palm reading however. Who knows whether those bumps are from a kid hitting you in the head with a baseball or naturally occurring? Perhaps by the wincing of the person? Just wondering.

Answer 4

phrenology(the study of the bumps on the outside of the skull, based on the now discredited theory that these bumps reflect somebody’s character)

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Answer 5

Phrenology. Also affectionately (and incorrectly) named "Bumpology".

Terry Pratchett , in his Discworld books, names it "Retrophrenology", defined as "the practice of altering someone's character by giving them bumps on the head. You can go into a shop in Ankh-Morpork and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection. What you actually get is hit on the head with a large hammer, but it keeps the money in circulation and gives people something to do."

(You may be interested in this site: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/phrenology)

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Phrenology

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Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a theory which claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps").