Dark Grimoire
Beautifully dark grimoire-themed tarot with moody atmospheric illustration.
creator unknown · Lo Scarabeo · 2009
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The record
The Dark Grimoire Tarot by Lo Scarabeo is a deck whose structure should be familiar to all tarot readers. Beautifully illustrated by Michele Penco using muted palette of colours relieved by bright but ominous highlights it has 22 majors that employ the usual titles and order (Justice is 8, Strength is 11). The minors are fully illustrated and use the common suit names and elemental attributions. Wands are fire, Swords are air, Chalices are water and Pentacles are earth. The court cards are named King, Queen, Knight and Knave although the Knave is pictured as a young woman rather as a young man. The elaborate and foreboding backs are non reversible. This familiarity of structure combines with the strange and disturbing imagery to provide an extraordinary journey into the deepest recesses of the unconscious, an exploration of the darkest part of the psyche where hide the most powerful and most troubling of ones hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares; where dwell the dark gods and demons that rule the soul. The deck takes its name from the books of magic, the grimoires, both real and imaginary that for centuries have promised knowledge and power for those brave enough to use them. Thi
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