A NEWFOUNDLAND DECK OF CARDS: FOLKLORE EDITION poetry Cover art and illustrations: Amanda

Cover art and illustrations: Amanda Ho

Along with these new rules

and write your memories in your diary

Play as a tiny animal from the Guild of Poulticepounders

A NEWFOUNDLAND DECK OF CARDS: FOLKLORE EDITION poetry Cover art and illustrations: AmandaEach suit in this deck is organized around different folklore traditions in Atlantic Canada (described below). The Joker cards depict two staples of Newfoundland tales trying to outwit each other in a game of cards: the down home hero known as Jack (with a magic sword and apple) and the cunning Devil, disguised here in the clothing of a fisherman from Portugal, another early colonial presence in Newfoundland. Rounding out the deck is a partridgeberry