A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot
- ISBN-10
- 0312162944
- ISBN-13
- 9780312162948
- Category
- Games
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Authors
- Ronald Decker, Michael A. E. Dummett, Thierry Depaulis
Description
And practitioners of magic, and the occasional French charlatan, developed uses for Tarot cards and baseless theories about them which were virtually unknown in other countries. The authors trace this phenomenon through the writings and activities of many advocates of Tarot occultism, including Court de Gebelin, Etteilla, Levi, and Papus, showing how an extraordinary variety of occult theories - from Hermetism to Rosicrucianism, from the Cabala to Freemasonry - was.
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- 1996-12-05
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Bloomsbury Academic
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