Sicilian tarot, part 2

Sicilian tarot, part 2- the court cards:
the courts of the Sicilian deck are very interesting. For starters, the knaves are female. this mirrors the ancient portugese cards, where the jacks in the suits of cups and coins were female.
in the suit of batons, observe the knave. she is holding a parrot. innocuous, you may say, but in former times, the parrot was a dragon....

see part 1 http://anthonylesq.blogspot.com/2011/12/sicilian-tarot-tarocco-siciliano.html
part 3 - http://anthonylesq.blogspot.com/2011/12/sicilian-tarot-part-3.html