{"collection":"Tarot","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tarot/sot/sot11.htm","path":"tarot/sot/sot11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot11.htm","text":"A desolate plain stretched before me. A full moon looked down as if in contemplative hesitation. Under her wavering light the shadows lived their own peculiar life. On the horizon I saw blue hills, and over them wound a path which stretched between two grey towers far away into the distance. On either side the path a wolf and dog sat and howled at the moon. I remembered that dogs believe in thieves and ghosts. A large black crab crawled out of the rivulet into the sands. A heavy, cold dew was falling.\nDread fell upon me. I sensed the presence of a mysterious world, a world of hostile spirits, of corpses rising from graves, of wailing ghosts. In this pale moonlight I seemed to feel the presence of apparitions; someone watched me from behind the towers,--and I knew it was dangerous to look back.","title":"The Symbolism of the Tarot: The Symbols: Card XVIII. The ...","type":"page"}