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The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T. S. Eliot and his ""wicked pack of cards"" in ""The Waste Land"" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's ""Live and Let Die""; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to...

The field encompassed by Religion, the Occult, and the Paranormal is both fascinating and frustrating. The fascination stems from the contested nature of the content, and the multi-disciplinary nature of the existing scholarly literature. The frustration stems chiefly from the misunderstood and much-maligned nature of the content, and the way in which specific elements are taken out of context, or treated in a frivolous manner as is often the case with tabloid journalism.

This new collection from Routledge addresses these and other urgent questions by bringing together the best...