Waite–Smith, Swords
Eight of Swords
What you can see
A bound and blindfolded figure stands among eight swords on wet ground, with a distant building behind.
What Waite says
Waite calls the confinement temporary rather than irretrievable. His explanation therefore qualifies the apparent completeness of the surrounding barrier.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 238 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.