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	Tarot (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tarot is a trick-taking card game played throughout France and also known in French-speaking Canada, which uses a traditional 78-card Tarot deck instead of the standard poker deck.
		The game is sometimes referred to in English as French tarot; for example, the French name of the annual Montreal festival Festival International de Tarot de Montréal is officially translated into English as International French Tarot Festival of Montreal.
		The game of Tarot is played using a 78-card set, divided into a numbered 21-card series of atouts (trump cards), one Fool (l'excuse), and 4 suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs), divided into 10 numbers from 1 to 10, and then the face cards of jack (valet), knight (cavalier), queen (dame) and king (roi).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarot_(game) (1156 words)

	Tarot as Cosmograph
		Besançon, Tarot de Besançon: a variant of the Tarot de Marseille was made in eastern France, Switzerland and Germany, from the early 18th century.
		Mantegna (Tarot of Mantegna, Tarocchi di Mantegna): a set of engravings dating from c.1470, depicting the estates of man (ranks of society), the muses, the liberal arts and sciences, the virtues, and the celestial spheres.
		The popularity of tarot in Milan declined greatly in the 17th century, and the decks used in Milan (and throughout northern Italy) in the 18th and 19th centuries are variants of the Tarot de Marseille, reintroduced to Italy from France early in the 18th century.
	www.tarothermit.com /glossary.htm (2525 words)

	Tarot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the exact sources of tarot are not completely known, the most commonly-held belief and earliest available reliable information suggests tarot originated as a game in 15th century Italy by adding to a normal deck of cards 21 trump cards, a fool, and 4 queens of each suit.
		Tarot cards only developed some 40 years later and they are mentioned, possibly for the first time, in the surviving text of Martiano da Tortona [2].
		Tarot is referenced in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarot (6807 words)

	Tarot - Crystalinks
		The origins of Tarot are somewhat obscure, the most common theories go to ancient Egypt and Thoth and the connection to the ancient mystery school teachings.
		Tarot as we know it today is a collection of images and symbols from a wide variety of cultures, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the prehistoric Norse peoples, from the ancient religions of India and Egypt to the medieval courts of Italy and France.
		Tarot cards only developed some 40 years later, and they are mentioned, possibly for the first time, in the surviving text of Martiano da Tortona (it can be found in translation on the Web).
	www.crystalinks.com /tarot.html (4044 words)

	Tarot History
		Tarot cards today are associated with fortune-telling and "the occult." Serious historians, generally speaking, have no desire to be associated with such subjects.
		Tarot cards (or taroc cards, or tarocchi cards) were originally used for playing a card game called tarocchi, and had no more (or less) to do with foretelling the future than did other types of playing cards.
		Tarot cards are often used as vehicles for artistic expression as well, and numerous artists (including Salvador Dali) have used the symbolism of the tarot as a means of creative expression.
	www.tarot-decks.com /tarotarticle.htm (816 words)

	Marseille Tarot - Tarotpedia
		The Tarot de Marseille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived.
		As to the east of the French centre is the Besancon Tarot(Swiss) Junon-Jupiter (II-V) variant, so to the north are variants such as the Belgian Tarot (Flemish) decks that replace the Papesse and the Pope with, respectively, the 'Spanish Captain' ("Le'Spagnol Capitano Eracasse") and Bacchus ("Bacus").
		Cartomancy with the Tarot was definitely being practised throughout France by the end of the eighteenth century; Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier reported an encounter with two "sibyls" who divined with Tarot cards in the last decade of the century at Avignon.
	www.tarotpedia.com /wiki/index.php/Marseille (2476 words)

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		French Tarot is also played in the French speaking parts of Canada.
		Tarot for Three Players The game is essentially the same as with four players.
		Tarot for Five Players Each player is dealt 15 cards, so there are only 3 cards in the chien.
	www.hollyfeld.org /heaven/Text/Divination/frtarot.txt (2840 words)

	Game Report: Early French Tarot
		The Tarot deck reaches back well into period; while its exact origins are a bit unclear, it appears to have come into being not too many decades after the more "conventional" decks did in the latter half of the 14th century.
		All the available evidence indicates that the Tarot was used more or less exclusively for card games during the Renaissance; the Tarot's occult associations appear to have arisen later, in the 18th century.
		For a variety of pictures of period Tarot decks, the reader is referred to Stuart Kaplan's exhaustive Encyclopedia of Tarot (which is still in print), particularly volume 1, which has the bulk of the pictures of period decks.
	jducoeur.org /game-hist/game-recon-tarot.html (1397 words)

	French Tarot Phoenix Club (F.T.P.C.) - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		French Tarot as you could have suspected is French and offers very little English information on-line.
		Tarot is a trick-taking game in which the partnerships vary from hand to hand.
		Although only in French at this time, the most promising attempt to promote French Tarot in the USA is our friend Théo Chino who is responsible for TarotUSA and who organizes games in New York, NY.
	torak.com /web/tarot (383 words)

	French Tarot :: Reading Tarot Cards.org
		French Tarot is also played in the French speaking parts of.
		Like the Chinese/Japanese game of Go (or Wei-chi), French Tarot is conventionally regarded as a regional game but one with a strong potential for achieving world-wide popularity.
		The French Tarot decks, although still consisting of 78 cards, also carry special rules in Tarocchi (and also in French Tarot), which e.g.
	www.reading-tarot-cards.org /tarot/French-Tarot.html (438 words)

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		By this time the game of Tarot had ceased to be played in France outside its eastern region so, to Parsian seers, the Tarot seemed mysterious and exotic.
		In the most prevalent interpre- tation of the Tarot trumps, they were forced into align- ment with the Hebrew alphabet, so that the Tarot could be interpreted in terms of 'Christian Cabalism'.
		the history of Tarot cards is largely of a negative kind, and that, when the issues are cleared by the dissipation of reveries and gratuitous speculations expressed in the terms of certitude, there is in fact no history prior to the fourteenth century.
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/occultism/divination/tarot/ny200312deckerdummetttarothistory.txt (469 words)

	Games played with French Suited Tarot Cards
		French suited Tarot cards were first introduced in Germany and Austria in the second half of the eighteenth century as a more convenient substitute for the Italian suited Tarot cards that had been used until then.
		French Tarot is played with the full 78 card pack.
		In a small part of the Tyrol a different Tarot game Droggn survives - it is played with a 66 card version of the pack and the fool serves as excuse.
	www.pagat.com /class/ftarot.html (854 words)

	Shogix.net - Links about French Tarot
		Tarot USA: this is the place to meet real players in United States.
		Rules of French Tarot: to learn the basic rules and variations.
		Searchamateur.com: This portal has a page about the french tarot and is maintained by Michel Billard (the guy who's introduced Tarot in Québec).
	www.shogix.net /en-links (325 words)

	Shogix.net - The French Tarot Card Game
		To play tarot well requires to understand the mechanism of the play, this particular dynamism that makes difficult the choice of an effective defensive line of play or a realistic line when attacking.
		The site is composed of three sections: the french tarot's glossary contains about sixty articles; the commented deals approach 4 topics on attack or defense; and finally the problems of tarot approach some situations of play, bidding or card's handling.
		The Excuse must only serve to protect the 19 from an attack coming of an intermediate tarot, because the 2 points which represents the trick of the 19 are likely to be very significant for the success of the contract.
	www.shogix.net /en-index (900 words)

	Rules of Card Games: French Tarot
		Games are played with Tarot cards in various countries of Europe, but nowhere is it as popular as in France.
		Fabrice's web site (in French) includes a section on Tarot with rules, strategies, on-line tournaments and a section in which a game of Tarot is played at the rate of one card every 2 or 3 days, with discussion on the best play at each stage.
		Here is an archive copy of Sylvain Lhullier's page règles du jeu de tarot, which unfortunately began with two historical errors: that playing-cards arrived in Europe in the 10th century, and that the earliest European cards were Tarot cards.
	www.pagat.com /tarot/frtarot.html (3926 words)

	MindZine - Card Games - Tarot
		Tarot games date back to the early 15th century, when they were first played in Italy.
		French Tarot is also played in French-speaking parts of Canada, and there is a Quebec Tarot Federation.
		Although it is in French, it is very easy to follow what is going on if you are not familiar with the language.
	www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/card/cardsmith/cardsmith1_tarot.html (573 words)

	Berti5
		The oldest French Tarot known today is that printed in Lyon in 1557 by Catelin Geofroy.
		However, the deck that connects the ancient Milan tarots to the Marseillaise tarots in a definitive manner, was printed in Paris by Jean Noblet around 1660, around the same period as Vieville.
		I do not have a slide of these, but their characteristics are substantially identical to those of the French tarots of the 18th century which took the name of Marseille, even if they were printed not only in Marseille but also in Besançon, Dijon, Strasbourg and other French cities.
	www.tarotpassages.com /berti5.htm (477 words)

	Play the Game!
		Even if you appreciate tarot cards as a divination tool or as an artifact of popular culture, you may be curious about the game.
		(The software is in French, but if you refer to the rules for French Tarot from the Card Games site, it should be clear enough for English speakers.) What I present here is a very basic form of the game, including most of the basic features found in the countless variants.
		Justice is not to be mistaken for the Queen of Swords, nor the Emperor for the King of Batons.
	www.tarothermit.com /game.htm (1170 words)

	Tarot-Crd-Ruls-art
		I should confess my knowledge of the French language is largely limited to the terminology used in the modern French game of Tarot and I have made extensive use of the Internet translation utility Babelfish.
		The original document is written in a very old dialect of the French language and even those actually fluent in modern French or even one who is knowledgeable of the older dialect may have difficulty following it as it is often imprecisely worded with apparently a number of errors.
		Seven Tarots and "la belle" (the ace of coins) are worth five.
	www.florilegium.org /files/ENTERTAINMENT/Tarot-Crd-Ruls-art.html (1920 words)

	Tarock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Le Monde, "The World", the pictures have no relations to these names), and that the suits used are the regular French ones (clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds) instead of the original swords, batons, cups and coins.
		The French Tarot decks, although still consisting of 78 cards, also carry the French suit marks.
		Below are a few examples of that card (in Austria called "Sküs" from the French word "Excuse") taken from various "Industrie & Glück" (which is a very common pattern) Tarock, Cego Tarock and French Tarot decks.
	hem.passagen.se /bernvill/tarock.htm (259 words)

	Modern French Tarot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tarot, as in Tarot fortunetelling cards, is one of my favorite card games.
		If my sources can be believed, Tarot was a gambling game long before the cards were associated with fortunetelling; the occult symbolism was created to disguise the fact that the players were gambling.
		Tarot is still played as a game in several countries.
	home.earthlink.net /~qwirkir/tarot.html (1417 words)

	Recommended Tarot Books
		There are thousands of books on the Tarot, so here is a taste of my eclectic interest in the subject.
		A collection of articles by AE Waite reveal the initiated insights of a Tarot Master that differs greatly from his books on the Rider-Waite Tarot.
		Tarot reveals the secret mystical and magical use of the Atbash in Tarot and the Magus
	www.supertarot.co.uk /resource/book.htm (852 words)

	Rules to Period Games
		Justin's reconstruction of 17th century French Tarot, based on the work of Michael Dummett, and a period-style description from The Ace's Boke.
		James Wickson has produced a new reconstruction of early Tarot, based on the 1637 French rules.
		La Boule Bleue is a nice French site (with HTML in several languages), focusing mainly on petanque, but with a bit of general history and rules on the whole Boules family.
	jducoeur.org /game-hist/game-rules.html (3940 words)

	Fragments of Tarot History – page 5 of 5
		The Johann Pelagius Mayer Tarot deck is an example of the Tarot de Besançon pattern.
		Kaplan dates the Grandpretre Tarot, reflecting the influence of de Gebelin, to the late eighteenth century, describing it as a hand-colored French deck, "made from copper plates in the late eighteenth century." On Plate 8, WPC dates what appears to be the same deck to c.1840, describing them as "anonymous hand-drawn Tarot cards".
		They are Egyptianized versions of those of the Tarot de Marseille: the earliest, outside the Etteilla tradition, of a long series of pseudo-Egyptian versions of the Tarot.
	www.geocities.com /cartedatrionfi/Fragments/1740-Present.html (4317 words)

	THE BALLAD OF THE TAROT
		The Tarot cards map and the Tarot poem were used during the Crusades.
		Without the key, the Tarot deck then seemed only for being "laid out" and "telling your fortune." Since 1370 AD when the key was lost the strange deck of cards has only been known as "fortune telling" cards.
		Because of the guards, when you solve the "riddle" of the Tarot poem, you may still find it difficult to reach the entrance of the mine.
	www.brojon.org /features/balladofthetarot.html (570 words)

	Grand Tarot Belline: titles and text in French - Aeclectic Tarot Forum
		Larger size scans of the various individual major cards of this deck are scattered here and there throughout the web on the various tarot review sites and tarot vendor sites (such as the scans in the link given in Fulgour's opening post).
		By the way, I've briefly perused the French long passages on a number of the deck's cards and have noticed that at least some of them are inspired by and paraphrase, to varying degrees, what is in the Paul Christian text (http://users.i.com.ua/~grdoor/pctarot.html), especially towards the end of each Paul Christian passage.
		For example, compare the French long passages on the Papesse, Hermit and Star cards with the Paul Christian text.
	www.tarotforum.net /showthread.php?t=30824 (779 words)

	Amazon.com: Aquarian Tarot: Jeu De Tarot De 78 Cartes Colorees Avec Livret D'Instructions: Books: David Palladini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The compelling imagery in this best-selling tarot deck brings medieval tarot symbolism into the modern Aquarian age.
		This was the deck I choose from many a selection of Tarot card decks..I like the softness of the muted colors and they feel kind and compassionate to me....The Waite-Rider deck has bright, primary colors which make me cringe....I find that deck over powering and crusty, but mostly annoying.
		Suitable for beginning Tarot users, the Aquarian deck is a different presentation of the traditional card symbols and suits of Rods, Cups, Swords and Pentacles.
	www.amazon.com /Aquarian-Tarot-Colorees-Livret-DInstructions/dp/0880796901 (955 words)

	Tarot Garden: Test Your T.Q. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		5) A popular Japanese tarot that is often difficult to obtain in the West, this deck has been republished several times, and bears the name of its creator.
		III, the title of this 1982 tarot, created by Alain Bocher and published by Alrea Editions of France, "refers to a pulley, in reference to the metaphor of truth being like the water in a well, which must be pulled up from the depths of the self."
		Also known as the "Jonathan Dee" tarot, this deck is also called the "Barnes and Noble" tarot because of its inclusion in a special boxed book-and-deck version that was distributed through the Barnes and Noble bookstores.
	www.tarotgarden.com /library/tqtest.html (877 words)

	Links to Not Quite Tarot Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marseilles Tarot Font - 1/2 of the Major Arcana as a sample for the full font.
		Tarot Boxes - Tarot boxes with cards from the Rider deck on the lid as well as various other designs
		Who's Who in the Mundane World of Faerie - one of my sponsors told me that in rare cases it was possible for non-initiates to pick up on the Feri current on their own.
	www.tarotpassages.com /links2.htm (314 words)

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