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Tarot Deck and Book Set for Dummies |
Tarot and DeckBook and SetBy Amber Jayati. Tarot Deck and Book Set for Dummies provides an accessible step by step approach to start your relationship with tarot. Using the special abridged edition of the Tarot for Dummies book, even the most apprehensive students will quickly learn to understand the meanings of each card. Packaged with the most popular and fundamental of tarot decks the full size Rider Waite Tarot. The book is 225 pages. Topic: Original use of tarot cards Inaccurate: The tarot was originally used for divination/magic/teaching secret doctrines/etc. Current Historical Understanding: Written records tell that the tarot was regularly used to play a card game similar to Bridge. The game was popular throughout much of Europe for centuries and is still played today, particularly in France. Early poets also used the titles of the trump cards to create flattering verses, called tarocchi appropriati, describing ladies of the court or famous personages. Although it is possible that tarot cards might also have been sometimes used for other purposes, there is no clear evidence of such use until long after the cards were invented. Records from a trial in Venice in 1589 suggest that tarot may have been associated with witchcraft (at least in the minds of the accusers) at this date, about 150 years after the appearance of the tarot. After this, there are no references connecting tarot with magic or divination until the 18th century. (See also next three questions.)
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