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According to playing card historian David Parlett in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games ''"People are often suprised to learn that Tarot cards were originally invented for playing games, that such games are still widespread and popular in continental Europe, and that the employment of tarots for divination and fortune-telling is a relatively recent perversion of their proper use, dating only from the eighteenth century."''
According to playing card historian David Parlett in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games ''"People are often suprised to learn that Tarot cards were originally invented for playing games, that such games are still widespread and popular in continental Europe, and that the employment of tarots for divination and fortune-telling is a relatively recent perversion of their proper use, dating only from the eighteenth century."''
In recent years, fortune telling and other occult excercises involving tarot cards have become especially popular among those who identify as "[[pagans]]"
In recent years, fortune telling and other occult excercises involving tarot cards have become especially popular among those who identify as "[[pagans]]".
==The Bible and fortune telling==
==The Bible and fortune telling==