Black Cats

Maria Kurora's deck through Lo Scarabeo (Llewellyn carries it stateside, hence the archive review's attribution) commits to a single feline thesis: the black cat, folklore's most maligned animal, honored across a full seventy-eight cards with what the reviewer rightly calls magickal reverence. The choice has real symbolic teeth. Black cats carry centuries of projected fear, witch-companion, bad omen, crossed path, and a deck that glorifies them is quietly rehabilitating the whole shadow-familiar tradition. Within the catalog's crowded cat shelf it stakes the darker, more numinous corner: where the Mystical Cats deck observes real cats in tarot scenes, this one treats the black cat as a magical subject in its own right. Lo Scarabeo's production gives the night-toned art its depth. It suits black-cat households first, readers drawn to familiar-lore and witch-adjacent symbolism, cat-deck collectors completing the set, and anyone who has ever crossed paths with a black cat and felt luckier for it.