Tarot history
The Tarot de Paris puts unfamiliar scenes behind familiar card names
The Tarot de Paris pairs familiar card numbers with unusual scenes. Explore three examples without mistaking a modern symbolic reading for historical proof.
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Tarot History & Games
Tarocco Siciliano keeps a local card tradition in a smaller pack
Discover the distinctive size and structure of Tarocco Siciliano, and learn why the cards in a box and those used in a local game may differ.
Tarot History & Games
Tarocchino Bolognese makes a compact deck from a long card-playing tradition
The Bolognese tarot tradition uses a 62-card pack. Explore its missing ranks and local history without assuming every tarot deck shares one structure.
Tarot History & Games
Minchiate expands the tarot pack into a different historical game
Minchiate’s expanded historical pack includes virtues, elements and zodiac imagery. Learn how to approach it without forcing a familiar 78-card structure.
Tarot history
Etteilla helped turn tarot reading into a published method
Etteilla’s books belong to the history of published cartomancy. Learn to distinguish his 1770 playing-card work from later writing about tarot.
Tarot History and Study
The two J’s in a 1JJ tarot deck point to Juno and Jupiter
The letters in a 1JJ tarot deck refer to Juno and Jupiter. A museum example offers a useful way into tarot’s varied naming and visual traditions.