Editing Cartomancy

{{Short description|Type of divination using cards}}
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[[File:Michail Alexandrowitsch Wrubel 001.jpg|200px|thumb|''The Fortune Teller'' (1895) by [[Art Nouveau]] painter [[Mikhail Vrubel]], depicting a cartomancer]]
[[File:Lucas van Leyden - The fortune teller.jpg|thumb|The Cartomancer fortune-teller (c. 1508, [[Lucas van Leyden]])]]

'''Cartomancy''' is [[fortune-telling]] or [[divination]] using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after [[playing card]]s were introduced into [[Europe]] in the 14th century.<ref>[[Paul Huson|Huson, Paul]] (2004). ''Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage''. Vermont: Destiny Books. {{ISBN|0-89281-190-0}}</ref> Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as ''cartomancers'', ''card readers'', or simply ''readers''.

Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The [[standard 52-card deck]] is often augmented with [[joker (playing card)|jokers]] or even with the blank card found in many packaged decks. In France, the 32-card [[piquet]] [[stripped deck]] is most typically used in cartomantic readings, although the 52 card deck can also be used. (A piquet deck can be a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed. This leaves all of the 7s through the 10s, the [[face card]]s, and the [[ace]]s.)

In English-speaking countries, the most common form of cartomancy is generally [[tarot card reading]]. Tarot cards are almost exclusively used for this purpose in these places.<ref name="Az">{{Cite web |title=Cartomancy Meanings: How to Read Tarot with Playing Cards {{!}} HedgeWytchery |url=https://hedgewytchery.com/cartomancy/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=hedgewytchery.com |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Johann Kaspar Hechtel]]
*[[Marie Anne Lenormand]]
*[[Patience (game)]]
*[[Suhl card reader case]]
*[[Teuila cards]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://marygreer.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/origins-of-divination-with-playing-cards/ Origins of Cartomancy (Playing Card Divination)]

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