DragonKing Dark: The history of tarot cards
Tarot cards evoke images of the esoteric and the occult, and sporting names like “The Devil”, “The Hanged Man”, “The Tower”, and “Death”, it’s not hard to understand why they stoke the imagination.
While decks of cards have been used for millennia for divination, the tarot’s antiquity is someone in question. While they have been linked to ancient Egypt. the evidence is somewhat questionable. Nevertheless, the tarot are imaginative, interesting, and somewhat scary.
Join me for this week’s look into the history of tarot cards.
Karl Stern is a pro wrestling historian specializing in the 1980s and pioneer era (pre-1900) of pro wrestling. He is an author who has written several books on wrestling and independently runs the When It Was Cool retro pop culture website.