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Tarot
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The tarot is a pack of cards. Tarot decks usually have 78 cards in total: 21 trumps, 40 pips, 16 face cards, and one Fool card. In the English-speaking world, the cards are usually used for divination. In other European countries, the cards are also used in games.

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==Tarot card games==
The pack which English-speakers call by the French name "T''tarot"'' is called "T''tarocco"'' in Italian, "''Tarock"'' in German and various similar words in other languages. Tarot games spread to most parts of Europe, notable exceptions being the British Isles, the Iberian peninsula, and the Balkans. Contrary to popular belief, Tarot cards did not precede ordinary playing cards, and they were invented not for the occult but for purely gaming purposes. Only later were they used for cartomancy and divination, and also as a field for artists to display specific iconographies, often connected to some ideological system. Concr(contracted; show full)
==External links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoSE4gjFco&feature=related Lost History-Tarot Cards (Video, 3 min.)]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMKEY12oxqw&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLAF1EF72F1E7F6BF9 Tarot Skeptic (video series)]
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/index.htm Sacred Texts website]
* [http://www.pagat.com/tarot/ Tarot games]
*  [http://tarocchino.com/ More tarot games]
* [http://www.trionfi.com/ Tarot Museum]