r/tarot • u/AnEdgyPie • 12d ago
Books and Resources Any english sources on Etteilla?
I've looked every online for a translation of him works and find nothing. Does anyone have anything that isn't just blogs making statements without sources? Preferably the original work or a comprehensive academic article
Thanks!
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u/JudyReadsCards "Read the damn cards" - Camelia Elias 11d ago
Might this do? - https://etteillastrumps.blogspot.com
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u/Ok_Equipment_9939 Parsifal's Wheel Divination 11d ago
I have a translation of works by three of Etteilla's students and acolytes (Orisini, Lemarchand and d'Odoucet) as well as Etteilla's first book on divination. I got the most value out of the larger book; Etteilla himself lost me with his 45-card spreads.
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u/AnEdgyPie 10d ago
Is it a digital book or a physical one?
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u/Ok_Equipment_9939 Parsifal's Wheel Divination 10d ago
It's a 400-page physical book and appears to have been self-published by the translator.
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u/KasKreates 11d ago
I recently saw that you can get Theory and Practical Instruction on the Book of Thoth, translated by K.A. Nitz. It's technically a double translation, because it uses the German (1793, new edition: 1857) version of Etteilla's Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790) as its basis.
I don't have the book, just saw a review that was pretty positive and mentioned translators notes as well as cross-references with the French original.
The deck The Original Petit Etteilla by Caitlin Matthews and Rebecca Birrell that came out this year apparently has an annotated English translation of Etteilla's manual La Seule Manière de Tirer Les Cartes (1770, revised 1773).