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features the most stunning illustrations from Rackham's body of work, inviting you to make a whimsical journey into the world of the wee folk where unexpected insights and inspiration wait for. The buddy booklets for many Lo Scarabeo decks are in 5 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Share your review so everybody else can enjoy it too. is a self-published deck by Doug Thornsjo through his company, Duck Soup Productions. It's one of several in his Playroom Oracles series. The oracle deck is conceived by Thornsjo using public domain prints of Arthur Rackham's illustrations. Arthur Rackham was an English illustrator with an artistic design that is now considered renowned of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. You see this same influence in the illustrations of Pamela Colman Smith( who illustrated the RWS deck by A. E. Waite ).

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Most of Rackham's art appeared in illustrated fairy tale books, from Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900, republished 1909), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908), and Peer Gynt(1936), which were 3 books that Thornsjo took the majority of the images for this oracle deck from. I love the keywords, the italicized captions, the layout design for the cards, the picked Rackham illustrations, and the well balanced levels of intelligence and creative artistry. The oracle cards came to me in minimalist product packaging, shrink-wrapped by itself, with simply those 2 information cards you see in the first picture above, no little white booklet, no operating handbook of any kind to speak of, no box, no drawstring bag, and I do not even recall seeing a packing slip. Now, that's not a horrible thing and it is a shallow gripe on my part, however the bar has been set quite high by other self-published deck developers that I now come to expect an experience when I unpack a self-published deck, especially given the rate I'm spending for these decks. Related Source Here 's simply the cards. That's it. Right to the point. No frills, no extras, no rewards, minimal explanation. I admit being a bit disappointed. Making up for that, however

, is the cool reality that I get to select a custom card back. There are 7 options to choose from. I opted for Choice C however it was a tough call. The order of cards here are randomized and are not in the exact same order the deck can be found in. I've been playing with the deck(and loving every minute of it ).