Tarocchi delle Fiabe

The Tarocchi delle Fiabe deals Lo Scarabeo's home tradition its own storybook: twenty-two majors of classic fairytale imagery from assorted hands, fiabe being the Italian tales themselves, the deck a compact pageant of the nursery canon. Beside the catalog's fuller tale instruments, the Inner Child's complete structure, Hunt's Lenormand, this is the Italian miniature: the trumps as bedtime repertory. Majors-only suits fairytale material for the same reason it suits creation myths; tales are trump-shaped, each one a complete archetypal transit, and twenty-two of them make an anthology rather than an excerpt. The assorted-artist credit gives the set a storybook-annual variety. It suits Italian-deck collectors, fairytale completists adding the fiabe to their Grimm and Perrault shelves, majors-only readers of the narrative persuasion, and families whose bedtime canon runs Mediterranean. The northern forests hold the darker tale decks; the fiabe keep more sun in their woods, mostly.