Cartomancy, the Glossary
Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards.[1]
Table of Contents
17 relations: Ace, Divination, Europe, Face card, Fortune-telling, Johann Kaspar Hechtel, Joker (playing card), Marie Anne Lenormand, Patience (game), Paul Huson, Piquet, Playing card, Standard 52-card deck, Stripped deck, Suhl card reader case, Tarot card reading, Teuila cards.
Ace
An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip. Cartomancy and ace are playing cards.
Divination
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Face card
In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. Cartomancy and face card are playing cards.
Fortune-telling
Fortune telling is the unproven spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life.
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Johann Kaspar Hechtel
Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1 May 1771 – 20 December 1799) was a German businessman, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, non-fiction writer and designer of parlour games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy deck. Cartomancy and Johann Kaspar Hechtel are playing cards.
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Joker (playing card)
The Joker is a playing card found in most modern French-suited card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades). Cartomancy and Joker (playing card) are playing cards.
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Marie Anne Lenormand
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1772–1843), also known as Marie Anne Le Normand, was a French bookseller, necromancer, fortune-teller and cartomancer of considerable fame during the Napoleonic era.
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Patience (game)
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them.
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Paul Huson
Paul Huson (born 19 September 1942) is a British author and artist currently living in the United States.
Piquet
Piquet is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game.
Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Cartomancy and playing card are playing cards.
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Standard 52-card deck
The standard 52-card deck of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. Cartomancy and standard 52-card deck are playing cards.
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Stripped deck
A stripped deck or short deck (US), short pack or shortened pack (UK), is a set of playing cards reduced in size from a full pack or deck by the removal of a certain card or cards.
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Suhl card reader case
The Suhl card reader case deals with the 1956 verdict on Charlotte Marquardt (born 1902 in Berlin, died 1975 in Suhl, East Germany).
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Tarot card reading
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future.
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Teuila cards
Teuila cards are a pack of fortune-telling cards, likely brought from Samoa by Isobel Strong, stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartomancy
Also known as Cartomancer, Cartomantic.