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Article #1065Re: Digression
From: Mr Jack Campin
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1988 17:49
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1988 17:49
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In article <794@actnyc.UUCP> gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
>This is not what my book* on the Tarot deck says (about the meanings of
>card suits - jack) Those who are enthused
>about the Tarot deck generally attribute its origins to a period long
>before the late middle ages, when the class system alluded to above
>was in operation in Europe.
>*One of Waite's.
Waite was lying, as usual. See Michael Dummett's "The Game of Tarot" for a
detailed and scholarly account of the *real* story behind the Tarot deck.
The "Egyptian" origin of the cards, and their "occult" significance, are a
late 17th-century French fabrication.
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