A NEWFOUNDLAND DECK OF CARDS: FOLKLORE EDITION poetry Along with these new rules

Along with these new rules

Running a Successful Career as a Demonic Tempter

and write your memories in your diary

a map by Jonathan Yee

Editing by Jim Parkin

A NEWFOUNDLAND DECK OF CARDS: FOLKLORE EDITION poetry Along with these new rulesEach 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