Thursday 27 January 2011

Playing cards

Fortune telling from a deck of cards from the years did not go out of fashion divination. Each of us has somewhere in the drawer of a deck or two, which in the rainy evening, you can use to bring solitaire or play with friends at the Bridge or Macau.

Cards that we use today have common roots with the tarot. Their origin has still not been convincingly explained, although messages are preserved medieval gambling on card games. Popular in today's world there are three types of cards: Tarot - 78 card divination, Tarok - 56 cards to play and 52 cards for popular games, solitaire games and home telling.

Divination of the cards is called kartomancją or posing Kabbalah. This term indicates a close relationship with the magical guilds papers and researchers hidden meanings of sacred books.