• The Long, Strange History of Tarot Cards: From the 14th Century to Modern Times

    The Long, Strange History of Tarot Cards: From the 14th Century to Modern Times
    We have any number of reasons for difficulty getting to sleep, not least worries about the future. This is hardly a recent phenomenon, and indeed practices meant to clarify the nature of events to come may be older than civilization itself. In fact, many of us moderns trust the old ways of fortune-telling more than the new. Take the cards of the Tarot, often featured here on Open Culture, whose recognizable European form dates back to at least the fourteenth century. But as explained in the new

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