tarot deck
Sign in to savethumb|Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination thumb|A Tarot reading|3-card tarot spread used for divination. The deck is the Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Deck (a faithful reproduction of the original [[Rider-Waite-Smith deck from 1909).]]
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A tarot deck is a set of playing cards that originated as a standard 18th-century card pack and later became associated with divination practices. Today, people use tarot decks to conduct readings by laying out cards in patterns, interpreting their meanings to seek insight or guidance.
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- Distribution
- History
- Playing cards and early tarot-like games
- Early tarot decks
- Propagation
- Etymology
- Playing card decks
- Italian-suited decks
- Italo-Portuguese-suited deck
- Spanish-suited deck
- French-suited decks
- German-suited Tarock cards
- Cartomancy
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- External links
thumb|Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination thumb|A Tarot reading|3-card tarot spread used for divination. The deck is the Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Deck (a faithful reproduction of the original [[Rider-Waite-Smith deck from 1909).]]
Tarot (, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a set of playing cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling or divination. From at least the mid-15th century, the tarot was used to play trick-taking card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, tarot games spread to most of Europe, evolving into new forms including German Grosstarok and modern examples such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen.