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…
Our Bohemian Fortune Telling cards – a fresh look at an old tradition
In 2023, we published The Bohemian Fortune Telling Cards – a deck created by us which follows a system that we were very familiar with during our time in Prague. Often called “gypsy cards”, in Czech these are usually known just as “vykladaci karty”, which can be loosely translated as “cards for…
