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cartomancy (ˈkɑːtəʊˌmænsɪ) [f. It. carta in sense ‘playing-card’ + Gr. µαντεία divination.] Divination by playing-cards.1871 Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 114 Cartomancy, the art of fortune-telling with packs of cards. 1886 Newscastle Weekly Chron. 29 May 3/1 It is said that the earliest work on cartomancy w...
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Cartomancy
Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers.
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Major Arcana
Following MCM, Etteilla brought the cartomantic tarot dramatically forward by inventing a method of cartomancy, assigning a divinatory meaning to each Following Ettielle, tarot cartomancy was moved forward by Marie-Anne Adelaid Lenormand (1768–1830) and others.
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Tarot (disambiguation)
Tarot may also refer to:
Tarot card reading, a form of cartomancy
Tarot card games, games played with Tarot decks, also known as Tarock decks
French
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Batons (suit)
In cartomancy and occultist circles, the suit of Batons is usually called Wands.
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Etteilla
In the book, Etteilla claimed that he had been introduced to the art of cartomancy in 1751, long before the appearance of Court de Gebelin's work. The next year he published a special deck for divination that syncretized his ideas with older forms of French cartomancy.
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Cups (suit)
The suit of Goblets, also known as cups, is one of several suits of some tarot packs used in cartomancy.
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Johann Kaspar Hechtel
businessman, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, non-fiction writer and designer of parlour games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy Deck (c.1799)
In the mid 19th century after the death of the famous French fortune-teller Marie Anne Lenormand, Lenormand's name was used on several cartomancy
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Tarocco Bolognese
The Tarocco Bolognese is also the earliest tarot deck to be used in cartomancy, predating de Gébelin and Etteilla by at least thirty years. Due to similarities in Bolognese cartomancy and Etteilla's system, it is possible the latter learned it from some Italian source (he claimed to have been
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Marie Anne Lenormand
In France, Lenormand is considered as the greatest cartomancer of all time, highly influential on the wave of French cartomancy that began in the late Greer
1772 births
1843 deaths
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Cartomancy
People from Alençon
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century occultists
Fortune tellers
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Queen of spades
Card reading
In cartomancy, the queen of spades is considered to be a sign of intelligence.
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Mary Gentle
Cartomancy. London: Gollancz, 2004 (paper). Cartomancy puts together Gentle's short fiction unrelated to the White Crow sequence, which she included in the White Crow omnibus which also included
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Suhl card reader case
A court in Eastern Germany had condemned Marquardt, an amateur psychic and cartomancy practitioner, to twelve years' imprisonment. She worked in a factory and continued practicing cartomancy for acquaintances, often in exchange for food or other goods.
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Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
In 1896 Stevenson published The Square of Sevens, and the Parallelogram: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Robert Antrobus
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