Saturday, 11. August 2007
A French Method of Fortune telling by Cards

The methods of divination by cards are sufficiently numerous in France, as they are in other countries, including England.

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Our own, however, are chiefly of continental origin, while, so far as it is possible to speak with any positive opinion upon so dubious and involved a question, it would appear that the French systems are largely particular to themselves, subject of course to the fact that proceeding in all cases on certain general principles, to that extent they may be said to derive from one another, or at least from a common root. I have selected for inclusion one system which -- although it first came into notice at the beginning of the nineteenth century -- is likely to be new to my readers.


It is worked with a piquet set of ordinary playing cards, which, as most people will know, consists of the usual picture-pieces and the ace, 10, 9, 8 and 7 of each suit, excluding the lower numbers.

A French Method of Fortune telling by Cards by Arthur Edward Waite.
(PDF, 10 pages)
Category: Readings & Divination | Tarot & Oracles |


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