<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>English deck of single figure cartomancy cards</dc:title><dc:creator>Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942, conceptor</dc:creator><dc:date>[1937?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>BEIN ENG38 : From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.</dc:description><dc:description>Title devised by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Latin/Italian suit system, modified (swords, wands, pentacles, cups)</dc:description><dc:description>Type: Cartomancy.</dc:description><dc:description>Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool].</dc:description><dc:description>CourtCards: Cavaliers are called knights; jacks are labelled pages.</dc:description><dc:description>Pipcards and Jokers: Pip cards numbered X-II.</dc:description><dc:description>Trumps: Single figure trumps; II: THE HIGH PRIESTESS; V: THE HIEROPHANT.</dc:description><dc:description>The cards appeared originally with Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910. All cards bear the designer's monogram. Suits of batons and money are labelled wands and pentacles.</dc:description><dc:description>Label indicates that the pack was printed in Great Britian and distributed by the Church of Light, Los Angeles.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>