Palms and Thumbs

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Thumbs and palms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thumbs" instead a verb "Palms".

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Palms and thumbs are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Palms" instead a verb "Thumbs".

In folklore of India the Rakshasa, tiger-headed demons, can masquerade as humans, but their hands always point the wrong way (palms up instead of down, and their thumbs point outwards).

Source: Red Right Hand
Another version from the spinoff parody Dungeon Hack described their hands as being upsidedown and switched, so that the palms faced inward, but the thumbs were on the bottom and the pinkies on top.

Source: Glamour Failure
When a hand is separated from the arms or the more minor fingers and/or thumbs are separated from palms of hand.

Source: Living Apart

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