Spells spotted in Lenormand

[akiva]

15 hours ago, Doktor_Zeus said:

i don’t see why not. The Game of Hope did have a fortune telling option and, although it was woefully underdeveloped, it does seem to have introduced the basic tableau layout. However it left most of the interpretation to the individual and it was down to later readers like Mssle Lenormand herself to introduce most of the nuance to it.

The Game of Hope is the Lenormand deck, just rebranded to use Mlle Lenormand's name as an advertising gimmick. She never actually used the Lenormand deck herself, she used a piquet deck iirc. The GT spread also existed before The Game of Hope, it was used in piquet divination 😊

[Doktor_Zeus]

On 11/26/2023 at 1:49 PM, akiva said:

The Game of Hope is the Lenormand deck, just rebranded to use Mlle Lenormand's name as an advertising gimmick. She never actually used the Lenormand deck herself, she used a piquet deck iirc. The GT spread also existed before The Game of Hope, it was used in piquet divination 😊

 

Yeah on second thoughts I think you're right, I seem to remember reading that somewhere. The Piquet Deck itself also began life as a game, but this time a trick-taking card game. The deck was a standard French-suited deck with the numbers 2-6 removed, just like the standard 'pips' seen on most Lenormand decks. Interestingly, the original Game of Hope also included the German-suited equivalents, replacing aces with deuces and including the 'Ober' Jack to complement the 'Unter' Jack, so that it could be used as either deck in a pinch.