When and Where Did Tarot Get Started?
I think the earliest that's
"recorded" for Tarot is
"playing cards" around about the 1370's- 1400's in Milan, Italy.
It's thought the "
Playing cards" arrived from
Mamluk, Egypt during the
1370s. Mamluk cards used suits of cups, coins, swords, and polo-sticks.
Polo was not known in Italy, so the Italians changed them into batons. Each region of Italy had its own variation. Spain had its own variation of the cards as well.
Tarot cards- were invented during the early 15th century in northern Italy as a permanent suit of trumps (trionfi, - 15th-century Italian
playing cards with symbolic content related to those used in the
tarocchi game. Below are some Italian men playing
a "card game", and maybe the game is
Tarocchini (I heard the game is very involved)....
bravo! Wonder if the pope plays, he seems a pretty cool guy 😉
Tarocchini
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(Wikipedia)
Early stuff----
(Wikipedia)
more early stuff-
(picture from Wikipedia)
Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain and most of central and northern Europe, seem to be where Tarot cards got their start, with thanks to
"playing cards" from Egypt in the 1300's. There is thought that
real tarot card reading may have started in ancient Egypt, but there is no documented evidence of this before the 18th century.
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Divination using playing cards is recorded as early as 1540, apparently in T
he book Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forli (a very simple method of divination). A manuscript from 1750 (
Pratesi Cartomancer) documents rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the tarot. In 1765,Casanova wrote in his diary that his Russian mistress frequently used a deck of cards for divination.
Is Tarot Evil? Or Of The Dev? 🙈🙉🙊
I by coincidence just read the best write up on this by
Brigit Esselmont of Biddy Tarot, so I'm going to post Brigit's link here for your answers (its very very good)!
https://www.biddytarot.com/is-tarot-evil/
