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Tarot of the Witches
Deck Notes
- deck:
- Tarot of the Witches
- artist:
- Fergus Hall
- publisher:
- U.S. Games
- artwork:
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This is a famous deck, having originally been featured in 1972's 007: Live and Let Die, as well as X-Files season 3 episode Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose in 1995. I ended up finding this deck as a complete set with Stuart R. Kaplan's book for $30 on eBay.
The major arcana in this deck are great - the artwork is surrealist, and the included book offers a breakdown of the image, as well as the meanings suggested by each image's elements. The minors, however, are barely worth using - the numbered cards have no imagery at all, and the book only includes very brief descriptions of each card's basic meaning and keywords.
Production Quality
The set itself is pretty nice. The book is about mass market paperback quality. My set was published in 1992 and is still in really good shape. The cards are semi-glossy with good print quality. It's a nice set for a collector, but I would never use this for any readings.