Significado de los Naipes Españoles
Cartomantic meanings of Spanish playing cards by Benita the Witch (XVI century), published by Chocolates Nelia, c.1932.
artomantic meanings of Spanish playing cards based on predictions by Benita la Bruja, a famous card reader who lived in Seville in the XVI century, published by Chocolates Nelia, c.1932.
The miniature cards are from Baraja Cartomántica Chocolates Nelia►
The prognostications take into account reversed cards and other cards nearby.
OROS
COPAS
ESPADAS
BASTOS
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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