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any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s by adding to the existing four-suited pack a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated ...
tarot game
trick-taking game played with a tarot deck, a special pack of cards containing a fifth suit bearing miscellaneous illustrations and acting as a trump suit. The cards are known as tarots (French), ...
playing card
Standard decks normally contain two or more additional cards, designated jokers, each depicting a traditional court jester. Few games employ them, and those that do use them in different ways. In ...
Saint Phalle, Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de
French-born artist (b. Oct. 29, 1930, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France-d. May 21, 2002, La Jolla, Calif.), first gained public attention with her artworks at which darts were thrown or guns fired. Her ...
divination
The immense popularity of horoscopes in the urban West today illustrates the almost exclusive concern with individual fortune-telling that characterizes divination in a mobile and competitive mass ...
playing card
The international deck evolved in Europe from the original 52-card Mamluk deck, of which some specimens are still extant. The original suits were swords, polo sticks, goblets, and coins, each ...
divination
the practice of determining the hidden significance or cause of events, sometimes foretelling the future, by various natural, psychological, and other techniques. Found in all civilizations, both ...
card game
Intrinsic evidence suggests that a trick-taking game without any special suit, or trump suit, along with playing cards, reached Europe in the 14th century, likely by passage through the Islamic ...
New Age movement
Traditional occult practices (e.g., tarot reading, astrology, yoga, meditation techniques, and mediumship) were integrated into the movement as tools to assist personal transformation. Transpersonal ...
Joan,
legendary female pontiff who supposedly reigned, under the title of John VIII, for slightly more than 25 months, from 855 to 858, between the pontificates of Leo IV (847-855) and Benedict III ...
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