By: Alix Cohen September 2, 2024: First used simply to play cards " there's actually a tarot game " decks were hand painted and prized all over Europe from the fifteen hundreds. Three centuries later riding a popular wave of occultism, they became tools for cartomancy/ divination. The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot is the most widely recognized and commonly used.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:12PM on August 28, 2024