bogiesan
This is delightful: a Waite-Smith deck, battered and bashed, stained and scratched, handled and shuffled so often the sides of the cards have actually eroded away.
http://mycuriouscabinet.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/a-rider-waite-relic/
The author, Le Fanu, writes:
> It is something of a fantasy among certain tarotists to want to use ancient, wizened decks, something which drives them to extreme measures, artifically ageing their decks, scraping them along the edges of tables, scuffing them, sanding them, subjecting them to merciless batterings, maybe (who knows) burying them in the garden for a few weeks before exhuming them. All perhaps to give their decks authority, to give them – as readers – authority (“now here’s someone who has been reading for years”). <
>> About Le Fanu
Tarot collector in a far off land; loves ghost stories, magick, tarot, wistfulness, spookiness, Victorian spiritism, ectoplasm... <<
Sorry if this has already been posted; cursory search revealed nothing.
http://mycuriouscabinet.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/a-rider-waite-relic/
The author, Le Fanu, writes:
> It is something of a fantasy among certain tarotists to want to use ancient, wizened decks, something which drives them to extreme measures, artifically ageing their decks, scraping them along the edges of tables, scuffing them, sanding them, subjecting them to merciless batterings, maybe (who knows) burying them in the garden for a few weeks before exhuming them. All perhaps to give their decks authority, to give them – as readers – authority (“now here’s someone who has been reading for years”). <
>> About Le Fanu
Tarot collector in a far off land; loves ghost stories, magick, tarot, wistfulness, spookiness, Victorian spiritism, ectoplasm... <<
Sorry if this has already been posted; cursory search revealed nothing.