Fifty-Four Devils

Download or read book Fifty-Four Devils written by Cory Thomas Hutcheson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ye are twenty-five cards.Become twenty-five devilsEnter into the body, into the blood, into the soul .”So begins a nineteenth century Italian charm making use of a small deck of playing cards. This brief-but-richly drawn book explores the practice of divination by playing cards—known as cartomancy. It reveals the “secrets in plain sight” which hide within the pips, kings, queens, and jokers of a standard deck. Explore one method of divination in-depth as you meet the “fifty-four devils”—the symbolic spirits of each card—and learn about invoking ancestral blessings for card readings, the folklore of playing cards, and how to relate fairy tales to a spread along the way.-From the back cover