Will Pooley

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he/him 19th-c french folklore, crime, witchcraft, doubt, creative histories
Bloghttps://williamgpooley.wordpress.com/about/
New bookhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/creative-histories-of-witchcraft/0F22F2601802625B426FC03584889F98
Last bookhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/body-and-tradition-in-nineteenth-century-france-9780198847502?cc=gb&lang=en&
Will PooleyOct 30, 2023

do you like Tarot? do you like #openaccess history?

have i got the mildly interesting new research article for you!

https://academic.oup.com/fh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fh/crad043/7310795

(image courtesy BNF https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53139578w)

Paper tools for broken hearts: fortune-telling with cards in France, c. 1803–1937

Abstract. Fortune-telling using cards became increasingly popular in France in the late eighteenth century. But the history of cards as tools for divination has

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