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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Digression
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Date: 15 Apr 88 17:49:06 GMT
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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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