The Alchemist's Bane

STANDARD DECKS SHIP IMMEDIATELY. DELUXE EDITIONS PLEASE ALLOW 6 WEEKS.    One of the primary aims of Natural Philosophy (a study to which most Alchemist’s subscribed) was to regain the knowledge lost during Man’s fall from God’s grace at his expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Paracelsus himself employed plants and plant byproducts in his alchemical research. Some of these plants, however, required very special knowledge indeed.   The focus of The Alchemist’s Bane is to encourage your spec to use her intuition to guide her choices. She must react instinctively in laying a pictured plant in one pile or the other. In this way, you explain, she is most likely to be in touch with the Natural Knowledge innate in every human being since before The Fall.   The surprise, of course, is in how well her Natural Knowledge unexpectedly manifests.   ONE EFFECT POSSIBLE: You show a set of nineteen old 3.5 x 5-inch (89 x 127mm) cards containing ancient images of herbs and secret signs that refer to alc