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Matthews has authored several books on divinatory cards, and her latest, The Complete Lenormand Oracle Cards Handbook, will be published in October of this year. This 36-card deck was named after the celebrity card-reader Mademoiselle Marie Anne Lenormand, who was popular around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, though the decks bearing her name weren't actually produced until after her death. The oldest packs in Matthews' collection are two Lenormand-style decks, the French Daveluy of the 1860s and the Viennese Zauberkarten deck from 1864, which were some of the first decks to be illustrated using the technique of chromolithography.
Matthews已经发行了好几本关于卡牌占卜的书，而他最新的一本《莱诺门奥秘牌完全手册》即将在今年十月出版。这种由三十六张牌组成的占卜牌是以著名的占卜家Mademoiselle Marie Anne Lenormand的名字命名的，而她活跃在十八到十九世纪之交，虽然直到她死后这种牌仍然没有被发明出来。Matthews手中最古老的收藏品就是两副莱诺门牌，分别出自1860年代法国的Daveluy和1864年维也纳的Zauberkarten之手，都是第一代用石版彩印技术印制的牌。
Oracle decks like the Lenormand tend to rely on more direct visual language than traditional tarot cards. "The tarot can often speak in broad, timeless, universal statements about our place in the world," says Wolf. "The imagery of fortune-telling decks is more illustrational and less archetypal. The images are generally more specific, simpler, and less universal, keeping the conversation more straightforward."
像莱诺门牌这样的奥秘牌相对于传统的塔罗牌来说可以表达出更多的视觉信息。“塔罗牌表现出了我们所存在的宇宙的永恒和广阔。”Wolf说。“占卜牌上的图像是具体而超前的，大体上它们都简洁而蕴含着指向性的信息，让灵性的对话更加直接。”
In contrast to most oracle decks, which don't include suited pip cards, Lenormand cards feature a unique combination of numbered playing-card imagery on top of illustrated scenes used for fortune-telling. "One of the earliest versions, called the Game of Hope, was made by a German named J.K. Hechtel and was prepared like a board game," says Matthews. "You laid out cards 1 to 36, and the object of the game was to throw the dice and move your tokens along it. If you got to card 35, which was the anchor card, then you're home, safe and dry. But if you went beyond that, it was the cross, which was not so good. It was like the game Snakes and Ladders." In this way, the Game of Hope fell into the Victorian-era tradition of board games that determined a player's life story based on luck.
和大部分奥秘牌不同，莱诺门牌独特地含有副牌组，在它的有编号的每一张牌上都有用于预测未来的小图。“它最初的版本是一种由德国人J.K. Hechtel发明的叫做‘希望游戏'的桌游。”Matthews说。“在桌子上摆开标着1到36的牌，游戏的玩法就是你扔出一个骰子，按照上面的数字把棋子沿着数字移动，如果下到了35号的位置，就是所谓的‘锚地'，你就算回到老家了，干燥又温暖；如果你越过了锚地，就到了‘十字路口'，那可不是什么好消息，它很像蛇梯棋。”这种希望游戏在维多利亚时代发展成了一种预测玩家未来命运的桌游。
This Lenormand-style oracle deck shows a mixture of playing card and fortune-telling illustrations, circa 1870. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.
莱诺门式的奥秘牌混合了各种卡牌游戏和占卜的风格。
