Their has been much wrote on the subject of tarot and their are a million and one books on tarot cards their history, uses and meanings. Although Tarot have a mystical use they where created as a game like the Ouija board. In an attempt to mystify the tarot may stories of the origins have arisen about the origins of tarot, including that they are meant to be from ancient Egypt or brought to Europe by Gypsies. The fact is the tarot originated in northern Italy early in the 15th century (1420-1440). There is no evidence for it originating in any other time or place. Or that modern set of playing cards evolved from Tarot the fact is that tarot evolved from the Islamic Mamluk cards of the day. Tarot increases the pack from 52 to 78 with the introduction of the queen and the trump cards. Originally Tarot cards where called carte da trionfi (cards of the triumphs). And only changed to tarocchi about one hundred years after their invention to differentiate themselves from a new game of trumps which had become fashionable played with ordinary playing cards. The origins of this new name are unknown for sure but could come from German word tarock, or the French word tarot. The use of tarot cards as a tool for divination and magicks has been around since 1487 and even may be before, since the card where originally created during the Italian Renaissances a time when Hermeticism, astrology, Neoplatonism, Pythagorean philosophy where all on the
