CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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Should you have any
know any
artistic
powers, or happen to
gifted friend, these extra cards can be orna-
to your own fancy, provided you
numbers. In fact, it would not be
a difficult task to design and paint a full pack of Tarot
cards for your own use in which case a visit to the
mented and coloured
insert the necessary
—
Museum
you some
upon which to base your designs.
In the modern printed packs, there is much needless
monotony, but in a genuine Tarot pack, or in a modem
hand-painted pack, no two cards would be alike. For
the Heart suit, you would introduce one Cup in an upper
comer for the Ace, and so on
otherwise you can let
your fancy rove how and where it will. One suit could
British
or the Guildhall would give
useful ideas
;
represent Flowers, another Animals, a third a series of
Women's Costumes
of various ages, a fourth Birds
—you
can vary them to any extent, though each suit should
show a
similarity of thought for all the cards.
—A
pack of seventy-eight Tarot Cards, with
guide, can be obtained from the publishers of this book,
Note.
for 8/6 post free.