The Fool
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- Instance of
- trump
- Part of
- Major Arcana
- Depicts
- man
- Image
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- Commons category
- Fool (Major Arcana)
- Unicode character
- 🃠
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Encyclopedic overview
The Fool from the Rider–Waite tarot deck The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. Traditionally, it is the lowest of the 22 trump cards, in tarot card reading called the 22 Major Arcana. However, in tarot card games it developed to be not one of the (then 21) trump cards but a special card, serving a unique purpose by itself. In later Central European tarot card games, it re-developed to now become the highest trump. As a consequence and with respect to his unique history, The Fool is usually an unnumbered card with a unique design; but sometimes it is numbered as 0 (the first) or more rarely XXII (the last). Design and numbering-or-not clearly indicate its role as a trump or special card in the specific game.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Fool” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.