Tarot

Tarot (from the Italian tarocchi) is a system of cartomantic divination that utilises the playing cards of the same name. The cards themselves reputedly have their origins in the Mamluk Sultanate, having been introduced into Europe via the Italian states (including the Duchy of Milan) in the fourteenth century; while the system of tarot was spread and formalised during the eighteenth century (though some authors have held that the tarot can be directly traced back to ancient Hebrew or Egyptian sources).