Please note that these are smaller traditional size cards and that this is an open edition. This fortune telling deck - from the city that is now Lviv, in Ukraine - is one of our favourite historical "fortune telling cards" decks. We've painstakingly res
Soothsayers first set up shop on Temple Street the 1970s, offering everything from palm and tarot card readings to “bird fortune telling,” where a small wing-clipped bird would peck out your future from a deck of cards. Kam expresses optimism about the future of his trade – perhaps he...
In January 2022 we talk about pest control and roots (both literal and metaphorical) in our lunar cycle, look at the Ace of Diamonds and the Ace of Swords (as well as the “Twelve Days” folk fortune-telling practice for weather in the coming year), hear a Slavic tale called “The ...
Some Country Christmas traditions: Belsnickling in Appalachia – A description from Gerald C. Milne; Yule straw, from Over Nine Forests by K.M. Koppana; and a Christmas Eve fortune-telling rite from The Devil’s Plantation by Nigel Pearson. (music under these: O Christmas Tree and The Hol...
It’s a very cottage-y, cozy sort of book that will let you see the magic in a cup of tea or a butter cookie tin full of buttons, and we’re incredibly proud of it. If you’ve ever wanted to know about fortune telling based on falling silverware, love divinations with burning matc...
Soothsayers first set up shop on Temple Street the 1970s, offering everything from palm and tarot card readings to “bird fortune telling,” where a small wing-clipped bird would peck out your future from a deck of cards. Kam expresses optimism about the future of his trade – perhaps he...
Fortune tarot card), or a cornucopia (symbolizing the hoped for abundance she could provide, but also recognizing that a harvest must be reaped AND sown, and that everything comes in seasons and cycles). Propitiation of Fortuna can be as simple as setting up an altar to her with symbols ...
Hungarian Holidays with Laine Some Country Christmas traditions: Belsnickling in Appalachia – A description from Gerald C. Milne; Yule straw, from Over Nine Forests by K.M. Koppana; and a Christmas Eve fortune-telling rite from The Devil’s Plantation by Nigel Pearson. (music under these: ...