Tarot Cards Are Special

Tarot cards are a special deck of playing cards that isin 1750. These books described more systematic
used for divination. The tarot cards slowly developedmethods of divination using the tarot cards. A
in the Europe from the conventional playing cards insixteenth century evidence of tarot cards used as
the mid fifteenth century. The first of the illustratedpoems is the poem called the "tarrocchhi appropriate"
cards were known as the carte da trionfi and thethat described the famous ladies of the court.
decks used to have an extra illustrated trump cardIn contemporary literature too, cards have found
along with the four suits of the conventional playingsignificant presence. In the 1932 novel, 'The
cards. The oldest instance of the carta da trionfi canGreaterTrumps' by British writer Charles Williams, the
be found from a court document of Ferrara, Italy inmain protagonists uses tarot cards to travel through
1442. The connection of Tarot cards with literaturedimensions of space and time, create new matter
has been profound and the tarot cards have beenand summon powerful storms. Another such
used as vehicles of philosophical, poetical, societal andnoteworthy novel is the 1969 novel 'Il castello dei
astronomical sermons. These cards have also beendestini incrociati' by Italo Calvino which is translated in
used as the subject of literature from the time ofEnglish as the 'Castle of Crossed Destinies' in 1979. In
their inception to the contemporary age.this novel by Calvino mediaeval travellers gathering at
The earliest connection of the cards used as poeticala castle are forbidden to speak and uses a deck of
vehicles can be traced back to 1491 to 1494 whentarot cards to narratetheir tales. These stories are
the Sola Busca Tarocchi poem and the Boiardothen reconstructed by the narrator of the novel,
Tarocchi poem were painted on the back ofattending implications from the secret nature of
illustrated playing cards. The next literary presence ofcommunications, fate, and the transcendence of
tarot cards can be traced back to a book called, 'Theeveryday life.
Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forli' that wasIn the 1922 poem, 'The Waste land', TS Eliot uses
written in 1540. This book described apparentlycards to describe the character of madame Sosorti,
incoherent methods of summoning tarot cardwho appears in the first part of the poem. The first
divinations. The psychic divination methods describedpart of the poem is called the burial of the dead. A
in this book were random and incoherent, although afew of the cards mentioned by Eliot are imaginary
more systematic system of divination was alsowhereas the other cards like 'the Hanged Man' and
slowly evolving. This gradual evolution of divination'the wheel' really appears in the tarot deck of cards.
incantations through the illustrated playing cards isContemporary evidences of cards on literature
evident from the two books called, 'The Square ofinclude the novel Sepulchre (2007) by UK writer Kate
Sevens' written in 1735 and the 'Pratesi Cartomancer'Mosse and the 2009 novel 'Andromeda Klein'.