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If any of y'all out there know where I could find A Sicilian Tarot deck, other than the modiano, please, please let me know!!!
Before Modiano began to produce Tarocco siciliano, in about 1966, the only firm to produce the pack was a small printer in Catania called Concetta Campione, which did not make any other kind of playing cards (and went out of business altogether in 1975). It had probably started to produce the pack after the closure in 1929 of the great cardmaking firm of Guglielmo Murari of Bari; it is almost certainly due to it that the Tarocco siciliano has survived. In Concetta Campione's version, the 'Hermit' held, not a lamp, but an hour-glass, as it had been in all previous examples of the Sicilian Tarot pack; the misinterpretation was that of whoever made the new designs for Modiano. This was a misinterpretation that had been made many times before in different forms of the Tarot pack; an hour-glass was the original object held by this figure, who symbolised Time. The mistake in the Sicilian pack differs only in that it occured so late in its history.
Le Fanu said:Hey, just a queary while we´re on the subject of Modiano cards...
Are these cards used for divination? They have a Modiano deck in my local esoteric shop. They told me that - yes- they are used for divination. Sure enough on the side it says "cartomanzia". But what are they like? Are they tarot or or more like tarock? Or like standard playing cards with pips?
I just saw this thread and pounced....