3988 – Fortune Telling Cards
- Physical description:
- Pack of reproduction Mlle Lenormand Fortune Telling Cards. The cards are in a small turquoise-coloured box, and each card features a colourful, naturalistic picture symbolising a particular fortune, and with an explanatory verse.
- Museum classification:
- Divination
- Size:
- 95 x 60 x 12
- Information:
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand was a famous French cartomancer, who had a forty-year career in the first half of the 19th century. After her death a number of card decks were produced that claimed to have been used by her. Since her nephew destroyed all her magic-related objects when she died, it is difficult to know how authentic these claims are.
- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Card, paper
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand was a famous French cartomancer, who had a forty-year career in the first half of the 19th century. After her death a number of card decks were produced that claimed to have been used by her. Since her nephew destroyed all her magic-related objects when she died, it is difficult to know how authentic these claims are.