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A spread of Salem Keepsake Tarot cards by candlelight on an old wooden table, with the tuck box, the deck, a small pumpkin and autumn leaves

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The Salem Keepsake Tarot

$55 Free US shipping

A tarot deck in which every card is a real place. Seventy-eight cards, seventy-eight corners of Salem, Massachusetts, its wharves and graveyards, its narrow streets and gabled houses, each rendered with the gravity the town has earned. For the visitor, a keepsake; for the resident, a familiar landscape made strange and new. $55, shipping free within the United States.

A souvenir tarot whose 78 cards each show a place in Salem, in the style of an 1880s hand-coloured souvenir view book.

In stock. Ships in 1–2 business days from Swampscott, MA.

Cards
78: a full tarot deck, 22 major and 56 minor arcana
Size
Tarot size, 2.75 × 4.75 in
Box
Printed tuck box
Captions
Every card carries its title and the place it shows
Guide
Includes a 98-page card-by-card guidebook (PDF, emailed with your order)

The deck

The tuck box, the deck face down, and seven cards fanned with The Fool on top
The open tuck box with The Fool rising out of it, and The Hermit on the table
The open box and six cards fanned on red velvet, beside two candles
The Hermit, The Moon and The Chariot laid out by candlelight, with the box and the deck

Some of the 78 cards

Each card names its place under the title.

The Fool: Derby Wharf Light
The FoolDerby Wharf Light
The Empress: the Ropes Mansion Garden
The EmpressThe Ropes Mansion Garden
The Emperor: the Custom House
The EmperorThe Custom House
The Hierophant: the Salem Witch Museum building and the Conant statue
The HierophantSalem Witch Museum
The Lovers: Chestnut Street
The LoversChestnut Street
The Chariot: the Friendship of Salem
The ChariotThe Friendship of Salem
The Hermit: the Witch House
The HermitThe Witch House
Death: the Old Burying Point
DeathThe Old Burying Point
The Moon: the House of the Seven Gables
The MoonThe House of the Seven Gables
The Sun: Salem Common, Haunted Happenings
The SunSalem Common, Haunted Happenings
Two of Cups: Salem Willows
Two of CupsSalem Willows
The card back: a gold compass star on night blue, reading Salem both ways up
The backReads the same either way up
See all 78 cards on one sheet

In Salem? Find it at Moons Gift Shop, 226 Essex St; Botanica of Salem, 272 Essex St; and Real Pirates Salem (Plundered Goods), 285 Derby St.