1. 5 Myths About Tarot
And some truths…

2. This guide is brought to you
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3. Myth:
When the Death Card
Appears, Someone’s
Gonna Die

4. Fact
When the death card appears in
books and TV, yes, someone will
die.
But for a tarot reader, the death
card almost never means physical
death. It‟s usually symbolic – the
death of a relationship, of a job, of
a way of life.
The Death Card, from
the Visconti-Sforza deck,
circa 1450.

5. Myth:
The Cards Come from
Ancient Egypt

6. Fact:
There‟s no evidence to support
this.
Playing cards likely originated in
the Middle East, the first known 5-
suited Tarot cards came from
Renaissance Italy, and were used
in a card game called Tarocchi.
Much of the imagery in current
decks stems from that period.
The Tarocchi Players. Fresco
from the Casa Borromeo, in
Milan, likely painted in the
1440s.

7. Myth:
Tarot Cards are
Satanic

8. Fact:
There is a devil card. But images on the
original tarot decks from Renaissance Italy
display Christian allegories, and virtues
such as temperance and strength. There„s
even a pope.
Some speculate the 5th suit of tarot trumps
was modeled on the Italian “triumph”
morality parades of that time period.
Devil card from the
tarot deck of Jean
Dodal, dating from
1701-1715.

9. Myth:
Tarot Cards are
Magic

10. Fact:
The cards are paper
and ink. What you
do with them is
entirely
up to you.
Artist unknown. Prince
Castracani Fibbia (1360-1419)
with a deck of Tarot cards,
tarocco bolognese. Date: 1600s

11. Myth:
You Can’t Buy Your
Own Cards.
They Must Be a Gift

12. Phooey. If I waited for someone to
gift a deck of tarot cards to me, I‟d
never have gotten started. The cards
you buy for yourself work just fine.

13. The End…?
When Riga Hayworth finds a dead body in her bedroom
a week before her wedding, it‟s par for the course. When
the corpse drives off with her fiancée… That‟s a problem.
Riga knows dead. More intimately than she‟d like. So
when a murdered photographer gets up and walks away,
she‟s believes there‟s necromancy afoot. And when she
discovers that several of her wedding guests are under
the influence of dark magic, she‟s certain.
But how can she catch a killer and stop a necromancer
when even her nearest and dearest are lying to her?
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