Tarot Card Games

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Tarot cards, Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, Tarocchini, The High Priestess, Death, The Magician, The Hierophant, The Empress, French tarot, The Fool, Tarot, tarock and tarocchi games, The Tower, Minchiate, Strength, The Chariot, The Devil, Justice, The Emperor, The Lovers, Temperance, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, The World, The Hanged Man, Tarot Nouveau, The Moon, The Star, Konigrufen, Judgement, Cego, The Mythic Tarot, The Sun, Jean-Claude Flornoy, Troggu, Troccas, Animal tarot. Excerpt: The tarot (; first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot. From the late 18th century until the present time the tarot has also found use by mystics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways. The tarot has four suits (which vary by region, being the familiar French suits in Northern Europe, the Spanish suits in Southern Europe, and the German suits in Central Europe). Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from ace to ten and four face cards for a total of 14 cards. In addition, the tarot is distinguished by a separate 21-card trump suit and a single card known as the Fool. Depending on the game, the Fool may act as the top trump or may be played to avoid following suit. Francois Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play card games. In English-speaking countries, where these games are largely unknown, tarot cards are now used primarily for divinatory purposes. Occultists call the trump cards and...