Fairy Tale Tarot by Lisa Hunt

78 story-built cards. World fairy tales assigned across the full tarot structure, each card a tale carrying its card's lesson.

Lisa Hunt's paintings. The fantasy tarot master's flowing, detail-rich watercolor style at its most narrative.

156-page illustrated guidebook. Card meanings with their source tales, spreads, and journaling prompts.

• Contents: 78-card tarot deck, 156-page illustrated guidebook
• Author and artist: Lisa Hunt
• SKU: DFAITAL

Fairy tales survived because they work: the world's cultures compressed their hardest lessons about courage, greed, transformation, and coming home into stories small enough to carry, and those stories map onto tarot's structure with almost suspicious ease, because both systems were built to do the same job. Hunt, one of fantasy tarot's most accomplished painter-authors, draws her tales from world folklore rather than one tradition's shelf, so the deck reads as a global story-hoard: each draw hands the querent not just a meaning but a narrative with the meaning already inside it.

That story-first design is the deck's working advantage: querents who freeze at abstract symbolism understand "you are in the middle of this tale" immediately, and the guidebook's pairing of card essay with source story makes readings teach folklore as they go. It sits naturally beside Hunt's Fantastical Creatures bestiary on our shelf, her stories and her beings, and beside the forest decks whose woods these tales all walk through.

1. Read by any standard method; the full 78-card structure holds beneath the tales.
2. Read each card's source story in the guidebook; the tale is the meaning's delivery system.
3. Offer the story to querents first; narrative lands where symbolism stalls.
4. Use the journaling prompts; the deck was built for the reflective practice.
5. Reread childhood favorites as they surface; the deck reintroduces them as teachers.

Ask the draw "which story am I in, and where in it": that is the deck's native question.

• Fantastical Creatures Tarot by D.J. Conway & Lisa Hunt: the artist's mythic bestiary beside her story deck.
• Forest of Enchantment Tarot by Weatherstone & Allwood: the woods these tales walk through.
• Faery Forest Oracle by Lucy Cavendish: the tales' own folk in oracle form.
• The Fright Before Christmas (hc) by Jeff Belanger: folklore's darker seasonal shelf.
• Easy Tarot: New Edition by Ellershaw & Marchetti: the fundamentals course the stories reward.

Is it a full tarot?

Yes: 78 cards in traditional structure, readable by any tarot method, with the fairy tales as each card's narrative dress.

Which tales appear?

Stories from world folklore across cultures, each chosen by Hunt for the card whose lesson it carries; the guidebook tells each tale with its card.

Who is Lisa Hunt?

One of fantasy tarot's most collected painter-authors; her flowing watercolor style and story-driven decks are genre landmarks.

Who is it for?

Story-minded readers, folklore lovers, and querents who understand narratives faster than symbols; it also makes a gentle serious-first-deck.

What is in the guidebook?

156 illustrated pages: card meanings with their source stories, spreads, and journaling prompts.