Endnotes

  1. Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (London: Scholastic, 2007), p. 79.
  2. His Dark Materials Wiki: A list of the symbols of the Compass:
    http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/materials/definitions.php
    [last accessed 10 September 2012].
  3. Northern Lights, p. 173.
  4. Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, and Michael Dummett, A Wicked Pack of Cards (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), pp. 116–142.
  5. Detlef Hoffmann and Erika Kroppenstedt, Wahrsagekarten (Bielefeld, Germany: Heinz Beier, 1972), p. 17, items 50–63.
  6. A Wicked Pack of Cards, p. 124.
  7. The British Museum Online Collection: A full set of photographs of the original Lenormand commissioned by Tarot Professionals. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3145089&partid=1&searchText=Das+Spiel+der+Hofnung&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1
  8. Georg Andreas Will, Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon oder Beschreibung aller Nürnbergischen Gelehrten beyderley Geschlechtes nach Ihrem Leben, Verdiensten und Schrifften…, Leipzig, 1805. [brief biography of Hechtel].
  9. Copies of the deck can be purchased at www.originallenormand.com.
  10. See H. T. Morley’s Old and Curious Playing Cards (London: Bracken Books, 1989), p. 64.
  11. The Word of Playing Cards: A selection of biblical morality cards of the day: http://www.wopc.co.uk/germany/geistliche.html
  12. The Wellcome Library: An article on early games: http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2011_08_01_archive.html
  13. W. L. Braekman, “Fortune-telling by the casting of dice,” Studia Neophilologica, vol. 52, iss. 1, 1980.
    George B. Parks, “The Genesis of Tudor Interest in Italian” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 77, no. 5 (Dec. 1962), pp. 529-535.
  14. The Original Lenormand site. A site dedicated to the reproduction of the Game of Hope by J. K. Hechtel: www.originallenormand.com
  15. Gidget London’s site. The home of the Stick-Peeps Lenormand deck: www.gidgetlondon.com
  16. The Carrie Paris site, home of the Lenormand Revolution deck: www.carrieparis.com
  17. Helen Farley, A Cultural History of Tarot, (London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 2009), pp. 84–88.
  18. Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1974), p. 134.
  19. Jonathan Dee, Fortune Telling with Playing Cards, (New York: Sterling/Zambezi, 2004), p. 55.
  20. Marcuz Katz and Tali Goodwin. Around the Tarot in 78 Days, (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2012).
  21. Guess what? There was indeed a “Dog and Anchor” pub in Kidlington, England, in 1891.
  22. Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin, Tarot Flip, (Keswick, UK: Forge Press, 2011).
  23. This is a Lenormand version of the formula of PRDS for reading tarot in Marcus Katz, Tarosophy (Chiang Mai: Salamander & Sons, 2011), pp. 110-11.
  24. Another useful grouping of cards is into themes, such as the cards related to different types of relationship (Dog = friendship, Heart = love, Ring = Understanding and marriage, Sun = Happy marriage),
    for which see Colette Silvestre, Le Petit Normand (Montpellier, France: Gange Editions, 2003).
  25. This was the case as it was discussed after the main reading had concluded.
  26. See Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin, Around the Tarot in 78 Days, (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2012); Tarot Face to Face (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2012).
  27. Mike Hernandez, “Tarot and the Future: Predicting vs. Forecasting”: http://mjhernandeztarot.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/tarot-and-the-future-predicting-vs-forecasting/

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