A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot - Hardcover
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A Wicked Pack of Cards Tarot cards were invented in Italy in the early fifteenth century, and for almost four centuries used exclusively for playing games. In late eighteenth-century France, however, they were purloined from the card-players for fortune-telling and the occult. For a hundred years, the use of Tarot cards for divination, and their interpretation as enshrining an occult meaning, remained all but exclusivel... Full description
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- PublisherSt Martin's Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0312162944
- ISBN 13 9780312162948
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages16
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