Not Much of a Protection

From the Victorian Fairy Tarot, the Seven of Winter (Swords); from the Haindl Rune Cards, Ingwaz:

Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

― Terry Pratchett

A rogue fairy and his companion have stolen from the communal commissary that supplies the winter needs of all the fairies. Greed is never content with what is needed; it always wants more, seeing only what it doesn't have rather than what it does. What this fellow doesn't realize is that taking what is not given won't expand his world, it will shrink it. There is the isolation of feeling others have what he wants, and the paranoia of being caught when he takes it. The rune Ingwaz refers to the harvest and fertility god Freyr, who gave up his great sword in order to marry the giantess Gerd. It suggests that what we think is helping and protecting us is actually keeping us from being content and happy.