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Question by Tani: I want to learn the history of Tarot, please?
I would like to find some sites, but serious webs only. I don’t want to know my future at all. I just want to learn when it all began, where, and so.
Thanks!!

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Answer by Pamela
The Hermitage: A Tarot History Site

Has lots info plus links to other Web Resources if you need it.

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One Response to I want to learn the history of Tarot, please?

  • philebus says:

    There are a few such sites:

    http://a_pollett.tripod.com/
    This site is a more general history of playing cards, including tarot.

    http://www.tarothermit.com/
    A good history site, with a range of illustrations

    http//:www.trionfi.com
    This is a huge resource of documents relating to tarot. They have a controversial theory about the cards origins but are highly respected. There is also a very large gallery of card images that will help illustrate the development of the cards over their 600 years.

    http://ludustriumphorum.blogspot.com/
    This is a blog by Ross Caldwell and Michael Hurst, two well known figures researching tarot’s history.

    http://pre-gebelin.blogspot.com/
    Michael Hursts’ blog.

    http://forum.tarothistory.com/
    A forum dedicated to tarot’s history.

    http://www.tarochino.com
    A site intruducing the card games but with an introduction to their history.

    You might also want to look for some books:

    The Game of Tarot
    by Michael Dummett with the assistance of Sylvia Mann
    Duckworth 1980 ISBN 0 7156 10147

    A History of Games played with the Tarot Pack Volumes One & Two
    By Michael Dummett and John McLeod
    Edwin Mellen Press 2004
    Volume One ISBN 0 7734 6447 6
    Volume Two ISBN 0 7734 6449 2
    Supplement from Maproom Publications 2009 ISBN 978 0 9562370 0 2

    A Wicked Pack of Cards
    By Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis & Michael Dummett
    St Martin’s Press 1996 ISBN 0 312 16294 4

    A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970
    By Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett
    Duckworth 2002 ISBN 0 7156 3122 5

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