I was looking for something else today—a book that might have been one of Pynchon’s sources for the Kabbalah stuff in Gravity’s Rainbow—when I came across this Penguin edition, Witchcraft and Sorcery, 1970, ed. Max Marwick. (I found a Pynchonian connection—easy to do, I know—when I opened the book to an essay entitled “Witchcraft amongst the Germanic and Slavonic Peoples”).


If you find, or already have any sources, of Pynchon’s research for the book, please post; very interested.
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A simple one to find (you can find it online; I picked it up for $2) is A.E. Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot:
Click to access Waite_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot.pdf
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Cheers!
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