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Two years ago I received my copy of the Streghe deck, and promptly showed it to a young Italian girl I was seeing at the time. I had told her it was called the "Streghe" (and she corrected my pronunciation, now I can say it like a native!), but she was horrified that anyone would call a Tarot deck that. She explained the constellation of rather unflattering meanings that the word had. On finally seeing it, her whole demeanour changed. She loved it - and she loved the name for it. Amongst other things "Streghe", apparently, means Witch. It means nagging wife. It means bitch. It means slut. It means old harridan. It means female thief. Most of the insults you can throw at a woman can be translated by this one word, apparently. But what it mostly means, is a healthy sense of humour and a total lack of hygiene, based on my impressions of this deck! The cards are a decent size whilst still being shuffleable, and have an inner black border surrounded by a white border, both of them narrow. They are on unlaminated cardstock, so I have been careful in my handling of them. The box is a simple fold-up cardboard box, also unlaminated and made of a loose, large-fibre, absorbent card, so over t

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