
By a Junghian analysis, our old ladies used cards as…
By a Junghian analysis, our old ladies used cards as mandalas. Their “medicine”, their folk remedies, were made with common sense, ageles wisdom and the language was an imagery of Arcanas based upon an oral lore.
From my perspective, my teachers, used Tarot, Sibilla and regional cards like dr Carl G. Jung used mandalas, exactly the very same way. A folkish proto analysis before Academics started to investigate human behaviours and minds, before some befores, deeper as magic can be, resilient and beautiful.
You can call it Old Italian Cartomancy or Italian Magic or Witchcraft. It never had a name for those knowing what it is.
Blessings and Peace.