I Cannot Find the Hanged Man
Tarot Cards in Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8934147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliette Wood (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 229-245 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2021.1952708 |
| OpenAlex | W3199162293 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In 1909, the occult publishing firm Rider and Son issued a pack of Tarot cards created by the artist Pamela Coleman Smith and the writer Arthur Edward Waite, both members of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This new Tarot linked a divination device that originated in the eighteenth century with current esoteric ideas. T. S. Eliot’s use of the cards in The Waste Land fixed the image of Tarot as the embodiment of a mystical quest, and, as the most available Tarot in the twentieth century, the Rider Pack provided an enduring set of images and meanings for Tarot mythology, which continues to influence speculative fiction and to create new interactive storytelling memes through Tarot readings
Art · Art history · Divination · Literature · Mysticism · Mythology · Narrative · Order (exchange · Storytelling · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |