Tarot Lenormand
Lenormand oracle-inspired 78-card tarot honoring Marie Anne Lenormand.
by Ernest Fitzpatrick, Alma De Angelis · 2006
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The record
The Tarot Lenormand is a full 78-card Tarot deck that has been inspired by the Mlle. Lenormand oracle decks. Mlle. Marie Anne Lenormand was a French fortune-teller born in the mid-nineteenth century, who was famous then for being fortune-teller to Napoleon Bonapartes first wife. Mlle. Lenormand is better known now for the cartomantic decks that have been titled after her, even though she never made her own deck. Illustrated by Ernest Fitzpatrick, artist of the Harmonious Tarot, visually these Tarot cards are set in the French Napoleonic era in costume and experience. The artistic style is fine and detailed, but not overly busy there is instead a feeling of space and calm to many of the cards. The major arcana cards are roughly based on standard tarot symbolism, but are rather more spare in appearance and prosaic in content. The Hierophant is illustrated as a Pope but without kneeling acolytes; the Hanged Man is a scarecrow dangling from the gallows by the left foot. The Devil is more traditionally biblical, appearing as a horned snake wound around the apple of tree in the Garden of Eden; an innocent looking Adam and Eve are in the background. The Star (here titled as The Stars)
The cards
