Cards utilized for games or divination Selection of trumps from the Tarot de Marseilles, a normal 18th-century pack Deck of the 22 Major Arcana cards motivated by the Tarot of Marseilles, however with the author's graphic style The tarot (, first referred to as and later as tarocchi or tarock) is a pack of playing cards, used from a minimum of the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play video games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian Knigrufen, a number of which are still played today.
Like the typical playing cards, tarot has 4 fits which differ by region: French fits in Northern Europe, Latin suits in Southern Europe, and German matches in Central Europe. Each suit has 14 cards: 10 pip cards numbering from one (or Ace) to ten, and 4 face cards (King, Queen, Knight, and Jack/Knave/Page).
Depending upon the video game, the Fool may act as the leading trump or may be played to avoid doing the same. These tarot cards are still utilized throughout much of Europe to play conventional card games without occult associations. Among English-speaking countries where these video games are not played regularly, tarot cards are utilized mostly for novelty and divinatory functions, generally using specifically developed packs.
History [modify] Milanese tarocchi, c. 1500. Playing This Article Is More In-Depth got in Europe in the late 14th century, but the origin is unknown. The first records date to 1367 in Berne and they appear to have spread out extremely quickly across the whole of Europe, as might be seen from the records, mainly of card video games being banned. [] Little is understood about the appearance and variety of these cards; the only significant information being offered by a text by John of Rheinfelden in 1377 from Freiburg im Breisgau, who, in addition to other variations explains the standard pack as containing the still-current 4 suits of 13 cards, the courts usually being the King, Ober and Unter ("marshals"), although Dames and Queens were already understood by then.
These suits are still utilized in conventional Italian, Spanish and Portuguese playing card decks, however have also been adapted in packs utilized specifically for tarot divination cards that first appeared in the late 18th century. The first documented tarot packs were recorded between 1440 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara, Florence and Bologna when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were included to the common four-suit pack.
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