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Current Talk '06 II / Re: Tarot Cards on Dark Shadows
« on: August 21, 2006, 04:08:54 PM »
She draws one in her first episode of 1795 that she calls "the Wicked Woman" but there is no such card in the Tarot.
I know it's just trying to make excuses for poor research by the DS writers, but my theory is that "the Wicked Woman" is Natalie's name for one of the traditional cards in the old Marseilles deck. I think on DS they used the Swiss JJ deck (so called because it has Jupiter and Juno instead of the Emperor and Empress) which technically was not printed until, I think, 1808? but again, perhaps the Countess had a friend who get hold of an early version of that deck for her.
I'm sure that's far more than you wanted to know on this topic!
G.
I know it's just trying to make excuses for poor research by the DS writers, but my theory is that "the Wicked Woman" is Natalie's name for one of the traditional cards in the old Marseilles deck. I think on DS they used the Swiss JJ deck (so called because it has Jupiter and Juno instead of the Emperor and Empress) which technically was not printed until, I think, 1808? but again, perhaps the Countess had a friend who get hold of an early version of that deck for her.
I'm sure that's far more than you wanted to know on this topic!
G.