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'''Cartomancy,''' also known as '''Card Reading''', embraces a broad range of fortune telling methods in which meanings are given to various game-cards, oracle cards, trade cards, or postcards that are assembled in a pack or deck. The deck is held or placed so that the faces are down, or unable to be seen. They are then shuffled by hand or swirled on the table, and then sortilege is applied to select cards, turn them face up, and produce a reading for the client. | '''Cartomancy,''' also known as '''Card Reading''', embraces a broad range of fortune telling methods in which meanings are given to various game-cards, oracle cards, trade cards, or postcards that are assembled in a pack or deck. The deck is held or placed so that the faces are down, or unable to be seen. They are then shuffled by hand or swirled on the table, and then sortilege is applied to select cards, turn them face up, and produce a reading for the client. | ||
The number of cards in a sortilege pack may range from 6 to 78 or more. The sortilege may result in the selection of one card; a set number of cards being arranged in a chosen pattern, which is called a layout or spread; or all of the cards in the pack being laid on the table or floor, which is called a grand tableau. | [[File:Edwards-Ringer-and-Bigg-How-To-Tell-Fortunes-Card-09-Cartomancy.jpg||center|thumb|600px|Learning cartomancy from [[Categorizing Cards|cigarette cards]]: This is card No. 9 in the 25-card [[Fortune Telling Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg|Edwards, Ringer, and Biggs "How To Tell Fortunes"]] set issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain & Ireland, Ltd. in 1929.]]. | ||
The number of cards in a sortilege pack may range from 6 to 78 or more. The sortilege itself may result in the selection of one card; a set number of cards being arranged in a chosen pattern, which is called a layout or spread; or all of the cards in the pack being laid on the table or floor, which is called a grand tableau. | |||
Read all about playing card divination and magic in ''"A Deck of Spells"'' by Professor Charles Porterfield. | Read all about playing card divination and magic in ''"A Deck of Spells"'' by Professor Charles Porterfield. | ||
[[File:A-deck-of-spells-FRONT-cover-SML.jpg|center|thumb|200px|"A Deck of Spells" by Professor Charles Porterfield, 2015 (Lucky Mojo Curio Co.)]] | [[File:A-deck-of-spells-FRONT-cover-SML.jpg|center|thumb|200px|"A Deck of Spells" by Professor Charles Porterfield, 2015 (Lucky Mojo Curio Co.)]] | ||
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Cartomancy, also known as Card Reading, embraces a broad range of fortune telling methods in which meanings are given to various game-cards, oracle cards, trade cards, or postcards that are assembled in a pack or deck. The deck is held or placed so that the faces are down, or unable to be seen. They are then shuffled by hand or swirled on the table, and then sortilege is applied to select cards, turn them face up, and produce a reading for the client.
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The number of cards in a sortilege pack may range from 6 to 78 or more. The sortilege itself may result in the selection of one card; a set number of cards being arranged in a chosen pattern, which is called a layout or spread; or all of the cards in the pack being laid on the table or floor, which is called a grand tableau.
Read all about playing card divination and magic in "A Deck of Spells" by Professor Charles Porterfield.
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catherine yronwode
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Pages in category "Cartomancy"
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