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Cartomancy isfortune-telling ordivination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon afterplaying cards were introduced intoEurope in the 14th century.[1] Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known ascartomancers,card readers, or simplyreaders.
Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Thestandard 52-card deck is often augmented withjokers or even with the blank card found in many packaged decks. In France, the 32-cardpiquetstripped deck is most typically used in cartomantic readings, although the 52 card deck can also be used. (A piquet deck can be a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed. This leaves all of the 7s through the 10s, theface cards, and theaces.)
In English-speaking countries, the most common form of cartomancy is generallytarot card reading. Tarot cards are almost exclusively used for this purpose in these places.[2]
