Conjure Cards: Fortune-Telling Card Deck and Guidebook

The Conjure Cards fortune-telling deck is based on Appalachian traditions, folklore, and superstitions and offers common methods of divination paired with the honored pastime of sharing and interpreting dreams. Examples include the Nine of Diamonds, Ace of Spades, little joker, big joker, and black dog.

Format: Mixed media product
Length: 64 pages
Publication date: 28 May 2021
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

A unique divination deck based on the authentic backwoods traditions, folklore, and superstitions of Appalachia has been created by Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft. This deck combines common Appalachian methods of divination with the honored pastime of sharing and interpreting dreams. Examples of the cards include the Nine of Diamonds, which shows a headless rooster and predicts a haint or plat-eye, the Ace of Spades, which is an old-fashioned baby cradle and predicts a death, the little joker, which is a witch or enemy and is represented by the folkloric black cat, and the big joker, which is the devil and is symbolized by one of the devil's forms in Appalachia: the black dog. The black dog represents evil spirits, so if it is paired with the black cat and the Ten of Spades (a grave stone), it could mean a family haint is haunting you or an enemy has conjured the dead against you. The Ace of Diamonds shows two wedding rings and predicts news, luck, and proposal. If shown with the Five of Hearts (a chapel with a stained-glass window) and the Ten of Diamonds (sunflowers), it would predict a happy marriage or undertaking.

Weight: 244g
Dimension: 86 x 115 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781578637447