![]() In fact, historians have described western views of the Tarot pack as "the subject of the most successful propaganda campaign ever launched. However, scholarly research has demonstrated that tarot cards were invented in northern Italy in the mid-15th century and confirmed that there is no historical evidence of any significant use of tarot cards for divination until the late 18th century. The early French occultists claimed that tarot cards had esoteric links to ancient Egypt, the Kabbalah, Indic Tantra, or the I Ching, and these claims have been frequently repeated by authors on card divination. These tarot cards are still used throughout much of Europe to play conventional card games.Īmong English-speaking countries where these games are not widely played, only specially designed cartomantic tarot cards are readily available and they are used primarily for novelty and divinatory purposes. Depending on the game, the Fool may act as the top trump or may be played to avoid following suit. ![]() In addition, the tarot has a separate 21-card trump suit and a single card known as the Fool. Each suit has 14 cards: ten pip cards numbering from one (or Ace) to ten, and four face cards ( King, Queen, Knight, and Jack/Knave/Page). Like the common playing cards, tarot has four suits which vary by region: French suits are used in western, central and eastern Europe, Latin suits in southern Europe. However, some older patterns, such as the Tarot de Marseille, originally intended for playing card games, are occasionally used for cartomancy. Thus there are two distinct types of tarot pack: those used for card games and those used for divination. In the late 18th century, French occultists made elaborate, but unsubstantiated, claims about their history and meaning, leading to the emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy. From their Italian roots, tarot playing cards spread to most of Europe evolving into a family of games that includes German Grosstarok and modern games such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen. The tarot ( / ˈ t ær oʊ/, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination
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