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3 | ''Mystical Medleys: A Vintage Cartoon Tarot'' is a divinatory deck of UsefulNotes/TarotCards designed by Gary Hall and published by Sterling Ethos as part of the Modern Tarot Library series. |
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5 | It's a ThemedTarotDeck modeled after the InkblotCartoonStyle popular in TheThirties animation. Think, ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'', ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}''. |
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8 | !!''Mystical Medleys'' provides examples of: |
9 | * AdamAndEvePlot: "The Lovers" refers to the Adam and Eve story: a man and a woman, both clad only in leaves (and shoes); one of the trees with apples on it, a snake in the middle, and a godly being watching from above. |
10 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: The "Page of Wands" wears the typical safari outfit while being in the desert. |
11 | * AnimateInanimateObject: Being an {{homage}} to [[RubberHoseLimbs rubber hose]]-style animation, a lot of the characters present are inanimate objects given faces and limbs. |
12 | * {{Baphomet}}: {{Satan}} as featured on "The Devil" was [[ArtImitatesArt designed after]] the ''Sabbatic Goat'' drawing by Eliphas Levi, the image most associated with Baphomet. |
13 | * BedSheetGhost: On the upper part of the "Ace of Cups", there's a white, surprised ghost with a hooded head, a light-blue overall, and a halo. Its body looks as if it's made of a transparent bedsheet. |
14 | * {{Calacas}}: "Three of Cups" features a trio of skeletal women dressed in Mexican-feminine attire, each dancing with a gold-colored cup. |
15 | * {{Cyclops}}: "The Fool", "The Magician", and "The Hierophant" both have one giant eye for a head. |
16 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: Satan in "The Devil" is done entirely in greyscale. This contrasts the man, the woman, and the podium to which they are chained, and the torch in Satan's hand -- all of them are colored. |
17 | * EyeOfProvidence: |
18 | ** The back of every card is a parody of the Bicycle Rider playing cards with the eyes of providences in an eight-figure. |
19 | ** The head of "The Fool" is that of a pyramid with a singular eye. |
20 | * InkblotCartoonStyle: All of the characters (and objects too) are {{Cartoon Creature}}s who sport [[RubberHoseLimbs rubber-like limbs]] without knees or elbows. You won't catch any of them without [[WhiteGloves gloves]] or shoes. They are also PieEyed. |
21 | * MockyMouse: |
22 | ** The shoes and pants worn by the men from "Three of Wands" and "Page of Cups" are an obvious reference to Mickey Mouse's default design. |
23 | ** The "Two of Wands" wears a red hooded robe and shoes, and has a pair of brooms that brings to mind Mickey Mouse's appearance in "[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]". |
24 | * MushroomMan: "Nine of Cups" features an anthropomorphic mushroom, complete with the red, white-spotted toadstool for a hat (or hair?). |
25 | * OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Both "The Empress" and "King of Pentacles" are anthropomorphic bovines that, while not going full InformedSpecies, are still PieEyed {{Cartoon Creature}}s with [[RubberHoseLimbs no joints whatsoever]]. |
26 | * OurMermaidsAreDifferent: The titular "Queen of Cups" has a red-headed mermaid with a crown sitting on a beach with a cup. There is also a baby mermaid (complete with SeashellBra), a pacifier, and a bonnet. |
27 | * ScrewballSquirrel: The two [[JokeCharacter joke cards]] "Happy Squirrel" and "Sad Squirrel" are anthropomorphic squirrels in overalls. |
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29 | ** The puppet body, hat, donkey ears, and bindle on "The Fool" are references to WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}. The last two, in particular, allude to when the wooden kid runs away from home and gets transformed into a donkey as a consequence of foolish behavior. |
30 | ** The "Page of Pentacles" looks similar to [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]]. It likely alludes to Sawyer's TheTrickster nature and cruel streak. |
31 | ** The "Two of Swords" is an Ace of Hearts that looks like one of the playing cards in ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. |
32 | ** The "Seven of Swords" has an Literature/{{Aladdin}}-like appearance. |
33 | ** The deck includes a bonus "Happy Squirrel" card that references the one that appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding "Lisa's Wedding"]]. |
34 | ** The redhead girl riding a lion on the box is a dead ringer to ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop''. Well, if she wore a green cap, anyway. |
35 | * SpiderPeople: "Five of Wands" features an anthropomorphic spider in a baseball uniform, wielding five baseball bats and a catcher's mitt with a baseball in it. |
36 | * ThemedTarotDeck: It's fashioned after the InkblotCartoonStyle from TheThirties. In other words, it features {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s and wobbly limbs. Furthermore, the characters always sport gloves and shoes in their attire. Most of them are deliberate shout-outs to the golden era of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. |
37 | * WitchClassic: "Eight of Wands" features a coven of [[RobeAndWizardHat robe-and-hat]] witches on {{flying broomstick}}s. |
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