Cartomancy and Fortune-Telling
Playing cards are used for fortune-telling, predicting the future or even as a psychological adjunct to folk medicine and therapy.
Cartomancy and Divination Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Playing cards are used for fortune-telling, predicting the future or even as a psychological adjunct to folk medicine and therapy.
Cartomancy and Divination Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Playing cards are used for fortune-telling, predicting the future or even as a psychological adjunct to folk medicine and therapy.
La Sibylle des Salons
La Sibylle des Salons facsimile of 19th century deck published by J M Simon, 1979.
Le Destin Antique
Le Jeu du Destin Antique, originally published by Grimaud in XIX c., republished many times since...
Kinney Transparent Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Kinney Bros Transparent playing cards with hidden images and fortunes, c.1890.
Black Cat Fortune Telling Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Black Cat Fortune Telling Cards published by Parker Bros, 1897
Il Destino Svelato Dal Tarocco
The Cagliostro Tarot was first published in 1912 as “Il Destino Svelato Dal Tarocco”.
Fortune Telling playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
English Fortune Telling cards probably published c.1770.
Aleister Crowley Tarot – the sombre luminary
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by Simon Wintle
Aleister Crowley Tarot - Crowley and Lady Freda Harris worked on the illustrations between 1938 and 1943
Cartas Gitanas
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by Simon Wintle
The designs of these fortune-telling cards are largely taken from nineteenth century Austrian "Rural Scenes" Tarock cards.
Housewives Tarot
The ‘Housewives Tarot’ designed by Paul Kepple & Jude Buffum, published by Quirk Books, 2004.
Naipes Tu Destino Cartomancy Cards
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by Adam Wintle
“Naipes Tu Destino” Cartomancy Cards from Peru will ease any stress in your interpersonal relationships c.1975.
The Playing Card Oracles
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by Adam Wintle
The Picture Book of Ana Cortez is an original work of art designed to facilitate Divination.
Gipsy Fortune Telling Cards
“Gipsy” fortune-telling cards with original artwork by Hylton Cock, published by Thomas de la Rue & Co Ltd., c.1910.
Tarjetas de la Felicidad
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by Simon Wintle
“Tarjetas de la Felicidad” containing positive mental affirmations by Lauro Trevisan, Buenos Aires (Argentina) c.2001
Playing Card Oracles - Alchemy Edition
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by Simon Wintle
Playing Card Oracles - Alchemy Edition - by Charles J. Freeman and Ana Cortez
Baraja Cartomántica Chocolates Nelia
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by Simon Wintle
Some examples of playing cards made in Catalonia from the collection of Iris Mundus, Barcelona.
Austrian Cartomancy Cards
During the 19th century a system of fortune telling arose in Europe using unnumbered, pictorial cards depicting popular imagery with subtitles in several languages.
Hafez Fortune Telling Cards
Fortune Tellers use the Hafez Cards by interpreting the Hāfez poems printed on the card backs when cards are selected randomly by their consultants.
Grand Jeu Lenormand
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by Simon Wintle
A pack of 54 playing-cards for fortune-telling each card containing a number of zodiacal, classical and modern images with a miniature card of the conventional type at top left and a letter of the alphabet at top right.
Cartomancia Astrología Quirologia Tests
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by Simon Wintle
A set of rather unusual and non-standard cartomancy cards from Argentina with religious connotations and imaginative artwork
Kadar Playing Cards
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by Adam Wintle
The Kadar deck designed by Christopher J Gould aims to break the norms of playing card design. The vibrant and fun pack has drawn inspiration from travelling fortune tellers and gypsies.
The Fortune Teller's Deck
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by Rod Starling
The Fortune Teller’s Deck was published in 1995 in conjunction with a book written by Jane Lyle. The deck was designed by Neil Breeden and the court cards incorporate traditional symbolism.
Stairs of Gold Tarot
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by Rod Starling
Whilst the titles of the cards are in Italian, the Hebrew and Sanskrit letters on the Trump cards denote, respectively, associations with the Cabbala and Vedic metaphysics.
Ye Witches
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by Simon Wintle
Ye Witches Fortune Telling Cards published by the United States Playing Card Co., 1896. 52 cards + Joker + extra card in box.
Cartes Lenormand
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by Simon Wintle
“Cartes Lenormand” published by H. P. Gibson & Sons Ltd, London, printed in Germany by B. Dondorf, 1920s.
Fortune Telling Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Fortune Telling Cards - wondrous scientific divination poker cards.
Buena Suerte Cartomancy
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by Simon Wintle
Buena Suerte Cartomancy cards published by Difusora S.A., Argentina, c.1975
Lenormand Cartomancy
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by Simon Wintle
Mlle Lenormand Cartomancy deck made by Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken, Stralsund, c.1890.
Fortune Telling Deck, c.1818
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by Simon Wintle
Fortune Telling Deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818.
Livre du Destin
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by Simon Wintle
Livre du Destin or Book of Fate, printed by B.P.Grimaud, Paris, c.1900.
Rameses Fortune Telling
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by Simon Wintle
The Rameses Fortune Telling Cards were manufactured by Chas. Goodall & Son Ltd, London, c.1910, around the same time as Rameses The Egyptian Wonderworker, was performing.
Geistliche Karten
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by Simon Wintle
Geistliche Karten, Augsburg, 1718. Each card carries a text in Gothic typeface giving advice regarding what to do and think each day. Not quite oracle or divination cards, they are more like 'a motto for the day' collection. The method of using the cards is not known.
Baraja de Amor
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by Simon Wintle
Hijos de José Garcia Taboadela was a book-seller who also published this charming pack of lovers' fortune telling cards in 1871.
The 72 Names Cards
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by Simon Wintle
The 72 Names Cards based on the Kabbalistic "72 Names of God" and the metaphysical artwork of Orna Ben-Shoshan, Raanana, Israel.
Ramses II tarot
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by Simon Wintle
Ramses II Tarot deck was published c.1975 in conjunction with a Peruvian occult or esoteric magazine.
Conjuring and Magic
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by Simon Wintle
The art of mystifying people is very old indeed. The first conjurers were priests who obtained power over simple minds by performing magical tricks which appeared to have a supernatural origin.
Significado de los Naipes Españoles
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by Simon Wintle
Cartomantic meanings of Spanish playing cards by Benita the Witch (XVI century), published by Chocolates Nelia, c.1932.
