Magic Words & Symbols Spotted in the Wild

A Wheel of Fortune

A Hermit

With a lantern and a whole candle's light, this Hermit calls, "Hang out your lights here."  From A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley, 1884.

A Four of Swords

These four swords appear in Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.  The caption reads, "Unconscious that the doom was over them too."

A Vintage Fool

A vintage Fool faces the darkness of tomorrow, from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

A Two of Swords

Here's a Two of Swords from Gleanings from Popular Authors, 1885.

Where the Magician Meets the Tower

From In the Valley of the Rhone by Charles William Wood, 1899.

A Two of Wands

Here's a vintage Two of Wands (which reveals a great tip on how to chase a mountain goat), from The Youth's History of the United States by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1887.

A King of Coins

This King of Coins appears in The Man in the Moon, February 1848.

Death Tolls the Bell

From Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild by S. Stefan, 1899.

A Knight of Cups Gets a Refill

This Knight of Cups, from 1476, appears in Monographien Zur Seutschen Kulturgeschichte by Georg Steinhausen, 1899.