Cartomancy
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Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were introduced into Europe in the 14th century.[1] Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers.
Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.[citation needed] The standard 52-card deck is often augmented with jokers or even with the blank card found in many packaged decks. In France, the 32-card piquet stripped deck is most typically used in cartomantic readings, although the 52 card deck can also be used. (A piquet deck can be a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed. This leaves all of the 7s through the 10s, the face cards, and the aces.)
In English-speaking countries, the most common form of cartomancy is generally tarot card reading. Tarot cards are almost exclusively used for this purpose in these places.[2]
It is popular among Romani people.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Huson, Paul (2004). Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage. Vermont: Destiny Books. ISBN 0-89281-190-0
- ↑ "Cartomancy Meanings: How to Read Tarot with Playing Cards | HedgeWytchery". hedgewytchery.com. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
- ↑ Dee, Jonathan (2004). Fortune-Telling with Playing Cards. Sterling Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-4027-1219-7.
Further reading
[edit]- Cartomancy Meanings: How to Read Tarot with Playing Cards
- Rioult, Thibaut. 2026. Performing Cartomancy: Object Narrative and Participatory Performance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. European Drama and Performance Studies, no. 26: 247–70. https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-20370-4.p.0247.
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