BrightEye
I'm interested in the history of various oracle traditions and starting this thread to see who here knows more about them. These are the traditions that we all know:
Lenormand
Kipper
Sibilla
Gipsy oracles
I'm uncertain about the last two. Are Sibilla and Gipsy oracles two different traditions? Most of the cards overlap but some do not. I always thought Sibilla oracles come from Northern Italy and Gipsy decks from the regions of the former Austro-Hungarian empire.
The Kipper tradition is German and ascribed either to Susanne Kipper (19th century) or the Kipper people of the Thirty-Years War, who dealt in scrap metal and were travellers like the Roma.
The Lenormand tradition is, of course, French and probably the best documented, allegedly going back to the 18th century.
Can anyone add anything to this?
And is there an English oracle tradition?
Lenormand
Kipper
Sibilla
Gipsy oracles
I'm uncertain about the last two. Are Sibilla and Gipsy oracles two different traditions? Most of the cards overlap but some do not. I always thought Sibilla oracles come from Northern Italy and Gipsy decks from the regions of the former Austro-Hungarian empire.
The Kipper tradition is German and ascribed either to Susanne Kipper (19th century) or the Kipper people of the Thirty-Years War, who dealt in scrap metal and were travellers like the Roma.
The Lenormand tradition is, of course, French and probably the best documented, allegedly going back to the 18th century.
Can anyone add anything to this?
And is there an English oracle tradition?