- Hand Made Tarot Cards
We have recently been sorting through some of the boxes that contain Doreens artefacts. Amongst dozens of Tarot packs that she collected we came across this hand made set which we assumed were done by Doreen Valiente.
Dr Steven Critchley was the first to point out that the cards shown are not by Doreen but are the work of Arnold Crowther and appear in his and Patricia’s The Secrets of Ancient Witchcraft with the Witches Tarot, intr. by Dr Leo Louis Martello, (New York: Citadel Press, 1974) pp. 105-110.
Dr Critchly however has never seen a coloured set – they could have been photocopied and coloured by Doreen Valiente – or they may be an original set gifted to her by the Crowthers.
Doreen was a firm believer that making your own ritual items strengthened the power of the item and the link between the owner and the intent.
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Rosemary Ellen Guiley is an author of books on the paranormal and supernatural. She has written 41 books, 8 encyclopedias and hundreds of articles on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual and mystical topics.
Her work has been translated into 14 languages and has been selected by major book clubs around the world. She appears in television programs, documentaries and films with paranormal themes, and makes numerous media and lecture appearances, including colleges and universities. She is an occational guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and is the featured paranormal expert with a monthly report on the Richard Syrett Show, Toronto, and Scott Colburn’s Exploring Unexplained Phenomena, Lincoln, Nebraska.
She is a columnist for TAPS Paramagazine, a consulting editor of FATE Magazine, an associate editor of JAR, the Journal of Abduction-Encounter Research, and a blogger for the Arts & Entertainment blog site, Paranormal Insider. She is a member of the League of Paranormal Gentlemen, a team of paranormal investigators that work for Spooked Productions on docu-dramas about paranormal cases. Guiley makes frequent first-hand investigations of haunted places, and is a featured investigator and presenter at many TAPS haunted weekend events, featuring Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. She is the Maryland representative for John Zaffis’s Paranormal Research Society of New England, which focuses on negative haunting problems.
Guiley holds a BA in Communications from the University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to becoming self-employed as an author, she worked as a news journalist, magazine editor, and internal communications editor for IBM. In 2001 she obtained a PhD from the International Institute for Integral Human Sciences, in recognition for her work in the field. Visionary Living, Inc., formed in 2000, is her umbrella company for her publishing and media work. Guiley lives in Maryland near Baltimore. See more on her official website http://www.visionaryliving.com/
