Danse Macabre: Caught in a Rapturous Dance with Death.
Our new Danse Macabre card continues an old tradition of Memento Mori imagery The tradition of Danse Macabre pictures (known as Dance of Death in English or Totentanz in German) dates to the European late Middle Ages, with its earliest manifestations appearing in the form of murals, manuscripts, and…
Cats are faithless but dogs are trustworthy? A new look at Bohemian fortune telling
Our Bohemian Fortune Telling cards do show a cat for “Falsehood”. But not in the traditional way. Falseness and Faithfulness are one of the pairs of cards that are nearly always seen in the Central European/Bohemian fortune telling card system. Falseness is commonly the Fox that we see in…
