The Magic Lantern Sibilla
Learn to Read the Vera Sibilla Oracle (Oracle Kit Box Set with 52 Cards and Guide Book)
Published on 28. August 2025
Book
Mixed media product
352 pages
978-0-7643-6897-4 (ISBN)
Description
Master the traditional Italian Vera Sibilla oracle with this 52-card illustrated deck and comprehensive guidebook that serves as a yearlong learning course.
The small Italian oracle cards of La Vera Sibilla, along with many other Sibilla cousins, spread throughout Europe in the 19th century and are read worldwide today. Depicting scenes from 19th-century Italy, 52-card Vera Sibilla is an intimate oracle that speaks about our daily lives, revealing what is to come and gossiping about what is happening in any situation.
The first kit of its kind to be published in English, The Magic Lantern Sibilla features beautiful new cards in the spirit of the original by Anastasia Kashian and a comprehensive guidebook from renowned author Caitlin Matthews. The guidebook is a complete learning course designed to progressively teach beginners to build their reading skills and learn each card in detail over the course of a year. Artist Anastasia Kashian brings a completely new vision to the traditional cards while maintaining their historic charm. Her illustrations provide witty, wise and dramatic new versions of the cards, while providing the reader with a wealth of visual insight as to the card's meaning.
Whether in questions of love, work, or play or in the face of the unexpected, La Vera Sibilla has the reputation of being a shrewd observer and squarely telling the truth. Master this fascinating historic cartomancy system and prepare to discover a strikingly accurate reading experience unlike any other.
The small Italian oracle cards of La Vera Sibilla, along with many other Sibilla cousins, spread throughout Europe in the 19th century and are read worldwide today. Depicting scenes from 19th-century Italy, 52-card Vera Sibilla is an intimate oracle that speaks about our daily lives, revealing what is to come and gossiping about what is happening in any situation.
The first kit of its kind to be published in English, The Magic Lantern Sibilla features beautiful new cards in the spirit of the original by Anastasia Kashian and a comprehensive guidebook from renowned author Caitlin Matthews. The guidebook is a complete learning course designed to progressively teach beginners to build their reading skills and learn each card in detail over the course of a year. Artist Anastasia Kashian brings a completely new vision to the traditional cards while maintaining their historic charm. Her illustrations provide witty, wise and dramatic new versions of the cards, while providing the reader with a wealth of visual insight as to the card's meaning.
Whether in questions of love, work, or play or in the face of the unexpected, La Vera Sibilla has the reputation of being a shrewd observer and squarely telling the truth. Master this fascinating historic cartomancy system and prepare to discover a strikingly accurate reading experience unlike any other.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Illustrations
52 art cards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 54 mm
Weight
934 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-6897-4 (9780764368974)
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Caitlin Matthews is one of the world's foremost cartomancers. Author of The Complete Lenormand Oracle Handbook, The Time Changer's Tarot, and The Celtic Book of the Dead, she teaches many modes of divination internationally. She lives in Oxfordshire, UK. www.hallowquest.org.uk Anastasia Kashian is an artist and the creator of the Les Dinosaures de Marseille (2021) and Baba Yaga's Little Book of Hut Maintenance, or, Chicken Legs for the Soul. Anastasia lives and works mainly in West Wales. https://www.anastasiakashian.com.