When two young women – both born with the extraordinary gift of ‘sight’ – become caught up in the terrors of the French ...

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in ...

It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns.Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a ...

Tarot-card interpretation can be used to answer a ... The cards quickly gained traction throughout many other European countries after the French conquered Milan and the Piedmont in 1499.

In 1781, French pastor and occultist Antoine Court de Gébelin came across a tarot deck and concluded that “what he was looking at wasn’t an ordinary set of cards, but actually a concealed ...

Do you know what it’s like to draw the Death card, and then find ... by 18th-century French occultists; and again later in the 20th century, when modern tarot was born thanks to the Rider ...

But tarot didn’t become associated with mysticism until 1781, when the French clergyman and scholar Antoine Court de Gébelin discovered the game. Image The Magician card from Convers Tarot de ...

Tarocchi would later be called tarot by French speakers. Bearing mysterious images, such as the Hanged Man or the Hierophant, tarot cards have inspired fanciful tales about their origin.