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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Black Cat Fortune Telling Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Black Cat Fortune Telling Cards published by Parker Bros, 1897
Buena Suerte Cartomancy
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by Simon Wintle
Buena Suerte Cartomancy cards published by Difusora S.A., Argentina, c.1975
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Fortune Telling Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Fortune Telling Cards - wondrous scientific divination poker cards.
Fortune Telling Deck, c.1818
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by Simon Wintle
Fortune Telling Deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818.
Fortune Telling playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
English Fortune Telling cards probably published c.1770.
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