Tarot Card Alice
Alice in Wonderland tarot featuring John Tenniel's original illustrations.
by Unknown · 1989
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The record
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass hold a lot of potential for tarot decks, and the original and delightful illustrations by Sir John Tenniel have inspired more than one Alice tarot. Whether the deck is successful or not hinges largely on the selection of the most appropriate image to express the sentiment or divinatory meaning of the tarot card. Tarot Card Alice has copied and coloured Tenniel's images from both Alice stories, and renamed them, as part of a Korean Major Arcana set. It is inevitable that this deck will be compared to the Wonderland Tarot Deck (1989), which is also based on Tenniel's illustrations, but is a fall 78 card deck. There are in fact very few similarities between the decks a few cards use the same scenes, but for different arcarnum. Tarot Card Alice uses the image of the White Rabbit with a trumpet in his hand as The Fool, while the Wonderland Tarot Deck uses the same image as Judgement. A picture of Alice's hand dropping the White Rabbit onto a window is used as The Tower by the Wonderland Tarot, and as Death in Tarot Card Alice and there any crossovers end. More disconcerting is the repeated use of several characters to depict many dif
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