What surprised me is that a totally unknown brand got the number 1 spot just because it is an American Brand. No one in the entire world, outside of the USA, knows that brand
The jokers also represent day and night/sun and moon. The back of the cards are night while the front is day, there are 12 court cards and 12 months. 13 cards in each suit and 13 weeks in each season. If you do a perfect riffle shuffle from new deck order 24 times it will shuffle full circle back to new deck order.
The King of Hearts did originally show the king holding an axe. Over time, he held the axe progressively closer to his head until the head of the axe disappeared behind the king's head, leaving only the handle showing.
I learned a lot from this and definitely enjoyed it, but it was kinda weird that they mentioned the original suits being cups, coins, swords, and sticks, yet failed to note that this is exactly the same as the Tarot Card suits, and it obviously came from that.
Wrong, these predate the tarot cards, this is an almanac, the church demonized using the almanac for divination so they went into secret and added the 22 major arcana for kaballah. At least that’s how it’s been explained to me…. Supposedly these cards date back to egypt. Taroh was them hiding them.
For tarot, it’s cups, swords, coins/pentacles, and wands. The cards are separated into the major arcana, which contains the well known tarot cards like Strength, Justice, The Fool, Death, and the Emperor, and the minor arcana, which is what the playing cards are based on. However, the suits have an extra card known as the Page. Each face card is meant to represent a type of person, like the Queen of Pentacles may represent an older, wealthy woman, and the Page of Swords may represent a brash, reckless young man. As they evolved into playing cards, the symbols changed into the more well known and accepted ones they are today. Hearts are cups, swords are spades, clubs are wands, and diamonds are pentacles. People have also told fortunes by using the standard deck of playing cards, and some decks are even set up for this. If you are very familiar with tarot, you should be able to read someone’s fortune by using a standard deck.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 and then of course there is cards of truth or cards of destiny, an entire divination system based on just playing cards and your birthday, at giving you a "birth spread" of cards and all this cool stuff.
Although I was surprised by a few of them, the one that surprised me the most were the shuffling facts. The hugely high number of order possibilities as well as the fact that it's very possible that a deck of cards has never been shuffled and yielded the same result in all of history. Those facts blow my mind!
Playing cards are similar to tarot cards. I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned. I actually prefer doing readings with playing cards vs tarot. However, I use the elements a little differently with playing cards vs tarot . It’s how I was taught But everyone has their own method. Diamonds:fire, clubs: air, spades: earth, hearts: water . Joker: the unexpected Ace: new beginnings something new Ace of spades: change or a loss. An important decision needs to be made. This video was still interesting . Thx for sharing
I've heard that The Queen of Hearts is inspired by Queen Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII. When you look at her portrait there is an obvious resemble.
#8 - The Joker is in the deck because he is the evolution of the trump card The Fool from the Major Arcana, a set of 22 trump cards which were used in the game of tarrochi, which can still be found in Hoyle. Today, the Major Arcana is known to be the most famous cards of what is called The Tarot Deck. The Minor Arcana are the "playing cards" as we know them today, minus a fourth royalty member from each of the 4 suits. Why The Fool survives, as The Joker, in a modern standard playing deck, and the other trumps don't, I don't know for certain, but it may have to do with symbology: The Fool in Tarot represents the Player or Questor, that is the person who is asking the deck itself a question, himself. The Fool is called The Fool because he is a novice, unenlightened; he does not yet know the answer to his question, nor has he yet gone on his quest to find enlightenment. That the Fool as the Joker is sometimes used today as a trump card, a wild card, or something unexpected to be paid attention to, serves as an element of chance: a reminder that one is not always in control, nor in posession of all of the facts...a reminder that one is a human fool. Just watch your reaction when one uses a Joker on you. :-) #6 - The King of Hearts is holding his sword behind his head BECAUSE it used to be a battle axe and this is the correct posture for holding a battle axe which one is about to swing. You saw this part in the video but was not in the narrative: no three Kings hold their weapon in the same manner, I say three because one King does not hold his weapon, and indeed one King has no weapon at all! --I'm amazed you did not address the One-Eyed Jack. *You* get to research that one. :-)
Nope, sorry. Not linked at all. According to various scholars, the name Joker evolved from the German name Juker which was used for the Euchre game in Germany. The joker was first mentioned in the 1886 book, Euchre: How to Play it. The Railway Euchre game which is described in the book uses an extra card, which is the joker.
they are nonetheless linked by timeline. that according to WakenerOne tarot is from the 15th century but the vid says it was first printed in the 1860s, and you say the name is from the 1880s. so according to these testimonies the tarot fool appeared 300 years before the conventional joker. we arent talking of the name because each language will use different words, but the idea is clearly lifted from the tarot idea. saying joker comes from euchre is pure speculation and probably coincidence because if you actually know german (which I do), then "euchre" will be pronounced "oikre" and "joker" would be pronounced "yoker", so it wouldnt become a j sound. by selectively choosing your information you can prove anything! that is what a good lawyer or good salesman does, the good lawyer carefully selects info guiding the courtroom the wrong way and the good salesman carefully guides you to purchasing. anyway according to the vid the joker is from the 1860s, 2 decades before your alleged german joker. are you sure it wasnt swiss because these arguments have more holes than a swiss cheese!
Laceykat66 & Wond Erful - The whole tarot timeline is a murky area. Some sources say tarot goes back to the 14th century but that no cards survive, only the stories of them. The 1800's date is the most generally accepted because there are cards from that era which do survive. But clearly they did not spring up overnight, the cards, the games, and the inspirations for them are far older. I've read that Tarot in some form existed in the 1400's as a dress-up game, from which cards were a cheaper alternative. There are also suggestions that at least part of the Major Arcana actually comes from "gypsy cards" (like the Lenormand deck) that were included, thus the modern tarot is an amalgamation of different sources (the symbols most certainly are). And goodness knows how old the sources for the "gypsy cards" go back! As to the pronounciations for "Joker" and "Eucre", it would not surprise me if they are related. You are on the right track on this one, in regards to pronounciation. No slight on your knowledge of the German language, but the fact that you do know it is part of my point: *not everyone does*. Europe (indeed Earth) being so populated with different languages, words are borrowed all of the time with no source given for them. And there was no Urban Dictionary back in the 1800's. Education was not back then what it was today, and everything was transcribed before the printing press, and not everyone writes the way they speak. Mistakes happen, we're human, it's what we do. [For example, study the etomolgy of the name "John" and you'll see both "Ian" and "Yann" are related. Modern J is often comes from an ancient Y (but not exclusively). In reading Latin, one can change an I into a J if they are not familliar with the Latin they are reading. In our modern English, we often see Y being pronounced as either an E or an A, but somtimes it will keep it's hard Y; in your case the "eu" in euchre became the Y in "yoker". Try it with Spanish: "Juan" is the Hispanic "John" and the J is pronounced as either a H or a W depending on who is speaking, and what your ear hears. Try to write it down, not knowing how it's actually spelled, and you could accidentally get "Han" or "Won".] We all know there are multiple card games out there. It's very possible that the Joker card existed prior to Euchre, it's also possible that the Joker card was created for Euchre and was later incoporated into other decks. Scholars are good at research but you can only research what you have evidence for. Many times, card games were outlawed in the past, and decks were burned when found. We can not know the full evolution of the modern 52 card deck (or even Tarot) because of this. I thank you for your insights into Euchre, but to state "no link at all" is counterproductive because even your scholars (and mine) do not and can not know the full story. I see this whole video as a condensed and incomplete version of the most commonly known modern story. I know it's intended to be more of an introductory video and certainly is of no high scholastic value. I think it would be of help if it would say so, so that more people would do their research. But then again, I don't believe that's what this video was intended for. I am glad that it's sparked conversation, for while the video itself leaves much to be desired on this topic, so do the scholastic sources. Information has disappeared, sometimes on purpose. Information has changed, as it has filtered thru the population. Information has to be updated, whenever older sources are found. This is not a Final Say video, nor is it intended to be.
I literally was sitting there and just cringing during the whole video about how he left the entire tarot deck history out of the video. The entire basis of our cards today is based upon the classical tarot deck.
Ralph Craig Firstly, I wasn’t totally sure which way he intended to joke, or if all the likes were for the same reason. I imagined someone hearing “rifle” and joking about it without knowing the proper word (just as the narrator had no clue). Secondly, I desperately needed to complain about the lazy editing of the video.
You gave us the names of the kings (names that are actually the same that are written on the BP Grimaud cards) : Charles = hearts, David = spades, Cesar = diamonds, Alexandre = clubs. But queens and jacks also have names. Jack of clubs is Lancelot, the knight of the Round Table. Jack of diamonds is Hector, the trojan prince. Jack of spades is Ogier, a danish knight who served Charlemagne (aka the king of hearts which is a little bit strange). Jack of hearts is La Hire de Vignole, a knight friend of Joan of Ark. Queen of spades is Pallas, also known as Athena the greek goddess of wisdom. Queen of diamonds is Rachel and queen of Hearts Judith, both being characters from the Bible. Finally Queen of clubs has been named Argine, which is an anagram of Regina, the latin (and italian) name for queen.
I've always loved cards. I have a lot of different decks, and knew most of this and a bit of alternative thoughts on the kings. But those WWII decks are a goal. The best I have is a deck of reproductions of medieval cards. Everything else is modern but very cool.
The given history of playing cards was very fascinating and of great interest to me ! During the winter months, my family gathers every Friday night of every week, and enjoy playing various games of cards! It will be interesting for us to watch this video together before we begin our card game.......It will be the topic of the evening while we play the game of the night ! Thank you for sharing your info.
Funny thing, we are learning about probabilities in my class (and with it, playing cards) and my teacher told us all to watch this video because of playing cards. I have been a longtime subscriber for a while.
2 Corinthians 6:17, NASB: "'Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,' says the Lord. 'AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you."
The older suits of swords, coins, cups and sticks still remains as the common suits in the minor arcana of tarot cards. About the only difference my set of cards - my Dragon Age set - has is that the "sticks" are Staves because a stave is another name for a staff, and thus the weapon of a Mage, which is appropriate in a game universe where the situation Mages live in is a big issue. Most of the Staves cards are also Mage-related.
What gets me is that 'Poker' use to be the first game people learned how to play with a deck of cards. But these days, I can't even find hardly anyone who knows how to play it. I guess it's a generational thing. But I really do miss playing card games with friends. Even the drinking games back in my 20s we use to play was fun.
I collected jokers years ago because it was fun to see how many different ones I could come up with, I think the cards that were made into maps is a neat idea
I knew about half of these, but never the less, all of these facts are fascinating! Thank you for the wonderful video. It's entirely extremely well put together. Keep doing what you're going my friend :)
Number two, staring it's possible that no two decks were in the same order after being shuffled, is true only in the sense that the possibility exists, but it's highly unlikely that two decks were not shuffled into the same order. New decks start in the same order, and often people shuffle for a short time.
I remember back in the 60's my grand parents (who were WWI era people) would be selling decks of ace of spades cards at VFW picnics. They gave the reasoning that if our boys were taken prisoner with an ace of spades on their person the cong wouldn't kill them. Later I found out the real reason for the cards.
I am surprised that the Tarot deck never made it into this viddy. Pentagrams=Diamonds for money, Clubs=Wands for work, Swords=Spades for conflict and Cups=Hearts for love and the Fool became the Joker. Also, playing cards have a topsy-turvy design, so that unlike tarot cards they can't be used for divination, in which the "up" or "down" state affects the reading. PS: In the olden days, cards were blank on the back to prevent marked decks and were only used for one night of gaming, after which the players could jot addresses or notes on the back of the used cards and trade them so they could keep in touch. This idea gave birth to the business card. PPS: The number of cards in a deck relates to how many cards can be laid out to form a perfect rectangle, because that is how they are printed, all up on one big sheet, before they are cut into cards.
a number of items here were totally new to me, especially the stories regarding the Bicycle cards and their connection to wars ... wondered however, why there was no mention of Taro cards, from which these 52 cards originally come!?
Because 'playing cards' actually PRE-DATE your Mystic Tarot (as a simple search will reveal). Hence, no mention of the 'divination cards' here. The uploader ~did~ warn in the title that this was stuff you may not *know*; it seems that you just found one of those things.
_Rifle_ shuffle? I think you mean _riffle_ shuffle. If you're trying to shuffle cards with a rifle, you're probabably going to have some difficulties of one kind or another.
You forgot to mention the Spanish Deck one of the biggest Deck of the world in history. With 40 cards. Currently this Deck is used along many countries, South America, Spain, Portugal, south of France, Philipines, and North Africa. Cheers!
oddly enough i knew all of these prior to watching the video (great video though). i should also mention i am a professional close-up and street magician who works with cards daily for a living and also have done extensive study on everything about them to help entertain my audiences. i am currently in the process of designing a deck that has the names of the kings names on the card and the most popular idea of the queens names and if i can find enough information the jacks as well
the king of hearts is not stabbing himself. you have to look at the patterns of the sleeve holding the sword and the sleeve of the kings hand on his chest
Hearts - East - Water - Love - (Cups) Church; Clubs - South - Fire - Power - (Scepters) Nobility; Diamonds - West - Earth - Wealth - (Coins) Bourgeois; Spades - North - Air - Health - (Swords) Military.
Hearts-West-Cups-Water-Feminine energy, Clubs- South-Wands-Fire-Masculine Energy, Diamonds-North- Pentacles-Earth-Strength, Spades-East-Swords-Air-Intellect/communication But that's based off the Kabbalah. I guess one could assign any meaning they like though.
Spade - The standard house in SMB3 Heart - Appears only in SMA4 SMB3, which changes the Super Star into a Super Leaf giving 7 extra lives if matched instead of 5 Club - Same, but the 7up is now a number 3 giving 10 lives Diamond - Guaranteed Win with Club picture
It's an antiquated term. Because the Jack is not royalty (heard of the Royal Flush? - a hand used in poker), unlinke the King and Queen, somtimes they are refered to as Court Cards as to include him in.
It may be a transpondian thing. I'm in the UK, and I've always known them as court cards; "face cards" is understandable, but it sounds very "American".
Came from the Tarot. Remove the Major Arcana, boom 52 cards. Four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water equate to (Diamonds/Pentacles/coins), (Spades/Swords), (Clubs/Wands) and (Hearts/Cups). The Jack, Queen, King and Ace are still represented pretty much the same as their Tarot counterparts. This being the Paige (Jack), Queen, King and Ace (These remain unchanged.) It has been said that the Tarot is the pictographic representation of the entirety of the body of knowledge contained in the Kabbalah. The knowledge therein, being considered heretical, was under attack. Books were being burned. So, in an attempt to preserve the secret knowledge, the information was condensed into comprehensive and highly symbolic images. These cards were then used to play many games (assumed to be primarily gambling games), to ensure their preservation. The wise men knew that mans love of gambling would not ever fail. The designs and iterations changed slightly from culture to culture and, over the years, evolved into the cards we know today. That's just from my own research. Feel free to add/correct anything I might have wrong. Just my two sense. Cheers!
As i understand it the arcana came later so its more the other eay around. Even with tarot there original purpose was playing games, a trick taking game along the lines of spades, the fortune telling and mystocal associations came later.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia technically the fortune telling came after the philosophical parts. One thing the tarot was used for is to trach, especially since a huge majority of people during the 1800s and earlier were illiterate. The symbology on the cards were meant to teach and instruct those people.
The thing about number 2 is that it is, obviously, POSSIBLE to have all 52 cards be in order, but it is highly IMPROBABLE. At some point in card history, past or future, it has/will happen.
the highest count the playing deck reach was 56 not 52 as there were four picture cards called the so an original royal flush was knight, prince, queen, king and ace
I still have a deck of 'aircraft identification' playing cards from when I was a G.I. in the 1970s; they feature silhouettes (front, side, and top) of NATO/Warsaw Pact aircraft on the backs of the cards (where the nekkid people's pics usually are). The idea was to foster a better awareness of 'who's are whose' if one ever found him/herself on an AA gun during an actual camp-out.....
In 1919 my grandfather visited Paris while in the army. He brought back many souvenirs. One was a deck of playing cards. There was a naked girl on every card. These were extremely popular with U.S. servicemen. I still have that deck. It is still nearly mint condition because it was never played.
3:42 Why not also mention that all the other Kings have only 2 hands on their cards, the KoH has 4, which leads credence to the 'King being killed' theory??
@ 5:31 only if you add as their perspective position within the deck. Face cards are usually worth 10 in most cases. This does not add up to 365 if you value the face cards at 10. Only when 11 for Jack, 12 for the Queen and 13 for the King does this add up to 365 with a joker...
With regards to #10, an even more remarkable card-related expression is "playing both sides against the middle". It came from a common method of cheating casinos would use in the largely-forgotten game of faro during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It’s not odd to not mention that. It’s correct to leave it out. The producers of this video probably did their homework and therefore were correct in leaving that claim out, because playing cards actually pre-date Tarot, though both originated in the late 13th century. (Some reports indicate that playing cards originated in the 13th century and the Tarot originated in the mid to late 14th century.) I use both playing cards and Tarot cards for magic and for Cartomancy, (as well as some other ‘Oracle’ type decks), and their history and use, (particularly for divination), fascinates me. Regardless, paying cards came first and Tarot was originally just the 22 Major Arcana and were created for, and used for, playing card games. They were not a 78 card deck until quite a bit after the 52 card deck had already originated and had been used for Cartomancy, (like a couple of centuries later). Those 52 playing cards were added to the Tarot deck as the bulk of the Minor Arcana, (with the Pages for each of the four suits being added to the Tarot deck, despite it not having been in the playing card deck). According to historical records, even after adding the 52 cards to create the Minor Arcana portion of the deck, Tarot cards were only used for gaming and were not used for Cartomancy, (divination), until about 1750.
Suicide kings*, plural. The king of diamonds is also a suicide king, with an axe right above his neck. They are called suicide kings because they look like they're committing suicide and they're red in color, blood is red. The king of diamonds is also one of the only two cards that holds an axe. The other being the jack of hearts.
The one thing I would have liked to know is if there was any relationship between the Minor Arcana and 52 decks and if so why the Page didn't make the transition. On a side note the Fool of the Major Arcana is sometime connected with the Joker.
Not actually. There is a lot of information on the history of playing cards out there. For example, the indexes int he corners of cards were actually so revolutioary they were patendted in the 1860s.
RED (originally CUPS and COINS, i.e. the "round suits"): King, (Queen), Knight, Jack/Knave/Valet, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (lowest). BLACK (orig. SWORDS, STAVES, i.e. the "long suits"): King, (Queen), Knight, Jack/Knave/Valet, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A (lowest). The Queen did not exist in some old decks (German, Spanish); she did in Tarot-type decks. In Austrian decks only the top four pips were retained (for Tarock, Königrufen); the others being stripped out.
Hi, I used to collect Jokers aswell, I had around 450, when unfortunately they were stolen in a burglary, strange thing to steal but still. Wasn't you was it?
I remember hearing about the Ace of spades in the Vietnam war. One that wasn't here that I'd heard in the past was that the suicide king was actually a result of poor art. The sword is drawn back behind his head, but somewhere along the line, foreshortening was omitted.
1: You wrote "Followed Suite" instead of "Suit" 2: While rifle shuffling is certainly effective at preventing cheating, it also leaves a hole in your deck. You meant to say _riffle_ shuffling, as in the sound the cards make when they slide and slap against each other.
very interesting ....what surprise me the most was at the very end...about the cards helping out our military....makes me want to buy cards just for the pure sentiment that it might of saved some our boys lives.
Dorky Child picture books with barely any words where the characters can fly and do physically impossible shit; gambling; and city slickers who wear there snot rags on there heads, still carry snot rags (and wear them on there head, gross) kill people, steal, rape, sell drugs to those too young to make informed decisions about drugs, and yet have no clue why they are hated and why law enforcement constantly annoys them; and a type of play. Interesting combination.
Playing cards came from Tarot cards. Because it was illegal to tell someone their fortune, whenever someone was seen giving a reading they would say they were playing a game. The 4 suits were clubs/wands, diamonds/coins, spades/swords and hearts/cups.
1:55 The reason Hearts represent the Church is because of a corruption. Originally, the suit was called Choeurs, which meant Choristers (ie Monks). At some point, however, this morphed into Coeurs, which is French for Hearts.
THAT WAS A BADASS VIDEO, BRO! REALLY ENJOYED IT! I'll be honest... I've been playing with cards for almost 25 years now and even like to think of myself at this moment as a semi-pro card player and yet I think I maybe knew 1 or 2 of the 10! GREAT VIDEO AND GLAD I WATCHED! #ThumbsUpButton
you did not talk about the correlation between the cards and the minor arcana of the tarot deck. Gypsies and fortune tellers would bring the major Arcana when meeting a client and the client would bring a deck of cards with them and they would be combined to create a tarot deck. then the fortune would be told and the deck split up again. this way, in hopes, the fortune teller and the citizen would not be caught and there for tried for witchcraft.
It seems to me that you mixed up two of the suits when you were speaking of their meaning. In my studies they have always been correlated thusly, Fire - Wands - Clubs - Will Air - Swords - Spades - Intellect Water - Cups - Hearts - Emotion Earth - Coins - Diamonds - The body and practicality. You listed spades as fire and clubs as air. Do you have a source for that?
That one about the cards containing a map really surprised me! Which one surprised you?
Be Amazed the one about the suites
Be Amazed number 1
What surprised me is that a totally unknown brand got the number 1 spot just because it is an American Brand. No one in the entire world, outside of the USA, knows that brand
Frank Boogaard ikr...I grew up on Bee Brand
NONEEEEE I am a magician so lol
The jokers also represent day and night/sun and moon. The back of the cards are night while the front is day, there are 12 court cards and 12 months. 13 cards in each suit and 13 weeks in each season. If you do a perfect riffle shuffle from new deck order 24 times it will shuffle full circle back to new deck order.
The King of Hearts did originally show the king holding an axe. Over time, he held the axe progressively closer to his head until the head of the axe disappeared behind the king's head, leaving only the handle showing.
Joker can also be used for replacing a lost card since backing designs are the same as rest of deck ;]
OMG legit what I do
Holy shit,.. why haven’t I ever thought of this??!
yes, you are right bro
I learned a lot from this and definitely enjoyed it, but it was kinda weird that they mentioned the original suits being cups, coins, swords, and sticks, yet failed to note that this is exactly the same as the Tarot Card suits, and it obviously came from that.
Wrong, these predate the tarot cards, this is an almanac, the church demonized using the almanac for divination so they went into secret and added the 22 major arcana for kaballah.
At least that’s how it’s been explained to me…. Supposedly these cards date back to egypt. Taroh was them hiding them.
Tarot deck came from playing cards. It has an added suit.
For tarot, it’s cups, swords, coins/pentacles, and wands. The cards are separated into the major arcana, which contains the well known tarot cards like Strength, Justice, The Fool, Death, and the Emperor, and the minor arcana, which is what the playing cards are based on. However, the suits have an extra card known as the Page. Each face card is meant to represent a type of person, like the Queen of Pentacles may represent an older, wealthy woman, and the Page of Swords may represent a brash, reckless young man. As they evolved into playing cards, the symbols changed into the more well known and accepted ones they are today. Hearts are cups, swords are spades, clubs are wands, and diamonds are pentacles.
People have also told fortunes by using the standard deck of playing cards, and some decks are even set up for this. If you are very familiar with tarot, you should be able to read someone’s fortune by using a standard deck.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 and then of course there is cards of truth or cards of destiny, an entire divination system based on just playing cards and your birthday, at giving you a "birth spread" of cards and all this cool stuff.
Although I was surprised by a few of them, the one that surprised me the most were the shuffling facts. The hugely high number of order possibilities as well as the fact that it's very possible that a deck of cards has never been shuffled and yielded the same result in all of history. Those facts blow my mind!
Playing cards are similar to tarot cards. I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned. I actually prefer doing readings with playing cards vs tarot. However, I use the elements a little differently with playing cards vs tarot . It’s how I was taught But everyone has their own method. Diamonds:fire, clubs: air, spades: earth, hearts: water . Joker: the unexpected Ace: new beginnings something new
Ace of spades: change or a loss. An important decision needs to be made. This video was still interesting . Thx for sharing
I've heard that The Queen of Hearts is inspired by Queen Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII. When you look at her portrait there is an obvious resemble.
#8 - The Joker is in the deck because he is the evolution of the trump card The Fool from the Major Arcana, a set of 22 trump cards which were used in the game of tarrochi, which can still be found in Hoyle. Today, the Major Arcana is known to be the most famous cards of what is called The Tarot Deck. The Minor Arcana are the "playing cards" as we know them today, minus a fourth royalty member from each of the 4 suits. Why The Fool survives, as The Joker, in a modern standard playing deck, and the other trumps don't, I don't know for certain, but it may have to do with symbology: The Fool in Tarot represents the Player or Questor, that is the person who is asking the deck itself a question, himself. The Fool is called The Fool because he is a novice, unenlightened; he does not yet know the answer to his question, nor has he yet gone on his quest to find enlightenment. That the Fool as the Joker is sometimes used today as a trump card, a wild card, or something unexpected to be paid attention to, serves as an element of chance: a reminder that one is not always in control, nor in posession of all of the facts...a reminder that one is a human fool. Just watch your reaction when one uses a Joker on you. :-)
#6 - The King of Hearts is holding his sword behind his head BECAUSE it used to be a battle axe and this is the correct posture for holding a battle axe which one is about to swing. You saw this part in the video but was not in the narrative: no three Kings hold their weapon in the same manner, I say three because one King does not hold his weapon, and indeed one King has no weapon at all!
--I'm amazed you did not address the One-Eyed Jack. *You* get to research that one. :-)
Ok
Nope, sorry. Not linked at all. According to various scholars, the name Joker evolved from the German name Juker which was used for the Euchre game in Germany. The joker was first mentioned in the 1886 book, Euchre: How to Play it. The Railway Euchre game which is described in the book uses an extra card, which is the joker.
they are nonetheless linked by timeline. that according to WakenerOne tarot is from the 15th century but the vid says it was first printed in the 1860s, and you say the name is from the 1880s.
so according to these testimonies the tarot fool appeared 300 years before the conventional joker.
we arent talking of the name because each language will use different words, but the idea is clearly lifted from the tarot idea.
saying joker comes from euchre is pure speculation and probably coincidence because if you actually know german (which I do), then "euchre" will be pronounced "oikre" and "joker" would be pronounced "yoker",
so it wouldnt become a j sound.
by selectively choosing your information you can prove anything! that is what a good lawyer or good salesman does, the good lawyer carefully selects info guiding the courtroom the wrong way and the good salesman carefully guides you to purchasing.
anyway according to the vid the joker is from the 1860s, 2 decades before your alleged german joker.
are you sure it wasnt swiss because these arguments have more holes than a swiss cheese!
Laceykat66 & Wond Erful - The whole tarot timeline is a murky area. Some sources say tarot goes back to the 14th century but that no cards survive, only the stories of them. The 1800's date is the most generally accepted because there are cards from that era which do survive. But clearly they did not spring up overnight, the cards, the games, and the inspirations for them are far older. I've read that Tarot in some form existed in the 1400's as a dress-up game, from which cards were a cheaper alternative. There are also suggestions that at least part of the Major Arcana actually comes from "gypsy cards" (like the Lenormand deck) that were included, thus the modern tarot is an amalgamation of different sources (the symbols most certainly are). And goodness knows how old the sources for the "gypsy cards" go back!
As to the pronounciations for "Joker" and "Eucre", it would not surprise me if they are related. You are on the right track on this one, in regards to pronounciation. No slight on your knowledge of the German language, but the fact that you do know it is part of my point: *not everyone does*. Europe (indeed Earth) being so populated with different languages, words are borrowed all of the time with no source given for them. And there was no Urban Dictionary back in the 1800's. Education was not back then what it was today, and everything was transcribed before the printing press, and not everyone writes the way they speak. Mistakes happen, we're human, it's what we do. [For example, study the etomolgy of the name "John" and you'll see both "Ian" and "Yann" are related. Modern J is often comes from an ancient Y (but not exclusively). In reading Latin, one can change an I into a J if they are not familliar with the Latin they are reading. In our modern English, we often see Y being pronounced as either an E or an A, but somtimes it will keep it's hard Y; in your case the "eu" in euchre became the Y in "yoker". Try it with Spanish: "Juan" is the Hispanic "John" and the J is pronounced as either a H or a W depending on who is speaking, and what your ear hears. Try to write it down, not knowing how it's actually spelled, and you could accidentally get "Han" or "Won".]
We all know there are multiple card games out there. It's very possible that the Joker card existed prior to Euchre, it's also possible that the Joker card was created for Euchre and was later incoporated into other decks. Scholars are good at research but you can only research what you have evidence for. Many times, card games were outlawed in the past, and decks were burned when found. We can not know the full evolution of the modern 52 card deck (or even Tarot) because of this. I thank you for your insights into Euchre, but to state "no link at all" is counterproductive because even your scholars (and mine) do not and can not know the full story.
I see this whole video as a condensed and incomplete version of the most commonly known modern story. I know it's intended to be more of an introductory video and certainly is of no high scholastic value. I think it would be of help if it would say so, so that more people would do their research. But then again, I don't believe that's what this video was intended for. I am glad that it's sparked conversation, for while the video itself leaves much to be desired on this topic, so do the scholastic sources. Information has disappeared, sometimes on purpose. Information has changed, as it has filtered thru the population. Information has to be updated, whenever older sources are found. This is not a Final Say video, nor is it intended to be.
I literally was sitting there and just cringing during the whole video about how he left the entire tarot deck history out of the video. The entire basis of our cards today is based upon the classical tarot deck.
"Rifle shuffle," the deadliest shuffle of them all.
You have 69 likes now that I’ve liked it. Your welcome
The correct phrase is "riffle shuffle" (with 2 f characters) not "rifle shuffle". It bugged me when I heard the narrator say it incorrectly.
Robert Johnson he is kidding because rifles are deadly. He is poking at his mistake in the video. Read it again.
@@rjohnson8ball NEVER! EXPLAIN the joke...
Ralph Craig Firstly, I wasn’t totally sure which way he intended to joke, or if all the likes were for the same reason. I imagined someone hearing “rifle” and joking about it without knowing the proper word (just as the narrator had no clue). Secondly, I desperately needed to complain about the lazy editing of the video.
You gave us the names of the kings (names that are actually the same that are written on the BP Grimaud cards) : Charles = hearts, David = spades, Cesar = diamonds, Alexandre = clubs. But queens and jacks also have names. Jack of clubs is Lancelot, the knight of the Round Table. Jack of diamonds is Hector, the trojan prince. Jack of spades is Ogier, a danish knight who served Charlemagne (aka the king of hearts which is a little bit strange). Jack of hearts is La Hire de Vignole, a knight friend of Joan of Ark. Queen of spades is Pallas, also known as Athena the greek goddess of wisdom. Queen of diamonds is Rachel and queen of Hearts Judith, both being characters from the Bible. Finally Queen of clubs has been named Argine, which is an anagram of Regina, the latin (and italian) name for queen.
OlafReuh really interesting info I didn't know any of that other than the kings.
And 2 of spades is named a... Deuce !
These names are usually only seen in French decks, I think.
A 2 is a deuce not just of spades.
lol, I feel like you guys just remade my video
true lol
Chris Ramsay true AF
Chris Ramsay ha your a trend setter.
thought this sounded familiar
they copy many peoples videos
I've always loved cards. I have a lot of different decks, and knew most of this and a bit of alternative thoughts on the kings. But those WWII decks are a goal. The best I have is a deck of reproductions of medieval cards. Everything else is modern but very cool.
Pretty much all of it. I never knew playing cards had so much thought put into them. Very impressed and even more so with the research!
The given history of playing cards was very fascinating and of great interest to me !
During the winter months, my family gathers every Friday night of every week, and enjoy
playing various games of cards! It will be interesting for us to watch this video together
before we begin our card game.......It will be the topic of the evening while we play the game
of the night ! Thank you for sharing your info.
This is the best video of yours I've seen in a long time! All well researched, loads of things I didn't know. This is a huge improvement. Great video.
The one about the tax stamps eventually inspiring the designs of the ace of spades was really interesting and good history info. Thanks!
Funny thing, we are learning about probabilities in my class (and with it, playing cards) and my teacher told us all to watch this video because of playing cards. I have been a longtime subscriber for a while.
I'm a magician with cards being my favorite prop. I never knew the odds were so high with shuffling only 20 cards.
2 Corinthians 6:17, NASB: "'Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,' says the Lord. 'AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you."
I had heard of some of these stories about the cards, but I never heard or read the actual meanings as you described here. Thank you for that!
The older suits of swords, coins, cups and sticks still remains as the common suits in the minor arcana of tarot cards. About the only difference my set of cards - my Dragon Age set - has is that the "sticks" are Staves because a stave is another name for a staff, and thus the weapon of a Mage, which is appropriate in a game universe where the situation Mages live in is a big issue. Most of the Staves cards are also Mage-related.
Thank you so very much for posting! I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation!!!
I always remember the suits as Matespritship (Heart), Moiraillegiance (Diamond) Kismessitude (Spades) and Auspictiship (Clubs)
What gets me is that 'Poker' use to be the first game people learned how to play with a deck of cards. But these days, I can't even find hardly anyone who knows how to play it. I guess it's a generational thing. But I really do miss playing card games with friends. Even the drinking games back in my 20s we use to play was fun.
Yeah now everyone is playing Hold 'em. An entire TV channel devoted to it. Oh wait, that's Poker.
Dad taught me poker when I was seven!
4:30 - the king of hearts does most definitely display a gorgeous mustache.
I'm trying to create a character with the ability to summon soldiers from playing cards. This was useful. Thanks
Why is the jack of clubs the only non-spade card to turn his head to his left while all other picture cards turn to their right ?
Some decks have the queen of hearts do that.
I loved this video! I've never really thought about or even noticed most of these things. Thanks.
we gonna just skim over the fact he said”rifle” shuffle? its riffle shuffle
I collected jokers years ago because it was fun to see how many different ones I could come up with, I think the cards that were made into maps is a neat idea
8:12 you forgot the one i use
"The Table Mess"
When u put all the cards on the table move them around and put them in a deck again
*Also known as "washing."
52 card pickup - The EASIEST and MOST HATED card game ever.
gtafelon that's the method they use in Vegas card rooms, combined with a regular shuffle.
I think most casinos use that method, since it's the most difficult shuffle to rig.
Aka Domino Shuffle
I knew about half of these, but never the less, all of these facts are fascinating! Thank you for the wonderful video. It's entirely extremely well put together. Keep doing what you're going my friend :)
The elements associated with clubs and spades are given in reverse of what I believe to be the more common association: clubs = fire, spades = air.
Myth: The one stabbing the King of Hearts, is the Queen of Hearts with her famous quote. "Off with his head!"
"Why is the ace of spades is different?"
Yep.
Number two, staring it's possible that no two decks were in the same order after being shuffled, is true only in the sense that the possibility exists, but it's highly unlikely that two decks were not shuffled into the same order.
New decks start in the same order, and often people shuffle for a short time.
No reference to the 1 eyed Jacks?
I've always wondered about him.
There is a one eyed card for each king, queen and Jack... how about the dead man hand?
Or the pregnant Queen
Bronze Cowboy the dead mans hand is aces and eights from Wild Bill Hickok. It's the hand he had when he was shot from behind by Jack McCall.
I remember back in the 60's my grand parents (who were WWI era people) would be selling decks of ace of spades cards at VFW picnics. They gave the reasoning that if our boys were taken prisoner with an ace of spades on their person the cong wouldn't kill them. Later I found out the real reason for the cards.
the cards during the gulf war with pics of the most wanted
I am surprised that the Tarot deck never made it into this viddy. Pentagrams=Diamonds for money, Clubs=Wands for work, Swords=Spades for conflict and Cups=Hearts for love and the Fool became the Joker. Also, playing cards have a topsy-turvy design, so that unlike tarot cards they can't be used for divination, in which the "up" or "down" state affects the reading.
PS: In the olden days, cards were blank on the back to prevent marked decks and were only used for one night of gaming, after which the players could jot addresses or notes on the back of the used cards and trade them so they could keep in touch. This idea gave birth to the business card.
PPS: The number of cards in a deck relates to how many cards can be laid out to form a perfect rectangle, because that is how they are printed, all up on one big sheet, before they are cut into cards.
My squad leader used to throw aces on dead VC. Haven't though of that in years.
That's so cool about the maps behind the cards. Clever.
Did you know the 4 suits of playing cards are like a marriage? you start off with a heart and a diamond and end up wanting a club and a spade
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Or u start off with a club & spade & later want some hearts & diamonds 💎
a number of items here were totally new to me, especially the stories regarding the Bicycle cards and their connection to wars ...
wondered however, why there was no mention of Taro cards, from which these 52 cards originally come!?
Because 'playing cards' actually PRE-DATE your Mystic Tarot (as a simple search will reveal). Hence, no mention of the 'divination cards' here. The uploader ~did~ warn in the title that this was stuff you may not *know*; it seems that you just found one of those things.
_Rifle_ shuffle? I think you mean _riffle_ shuffle. If you're trying to shuffle cards with a rifle, you're probabably going to have some difficulties of one kind or another.
Yes this is what i said just now
Luckily nobody will challenge your shuffling method
Triggered?
See, it was worth a shot.
;)
Depends how large the rifle is. An artillery piece, for example, is rifled. Those are the cards used, at a guess, in a shell game.
Thank goodness it wasn't just me!
You forgot to mention the Spanish Deck one of the biggest Deck of the world in history. With 40 cards. Currently this Deck is used along many countries, South America, Spain, Portugal, south of France, Philipines, and North Africa. Cheers!
You didn't mention tarot.
That the four jacks are a combination of the 4 knights and 4 page cards.
That's not true at all, though.
oddly enough i knew all of these prior to watching the video (great video though). i should also mention i am a professional close-up and street magician who works with cards daily for a living and also have done extensive study on everything about them to help entertain my audiences. i am currently in the process of designing a deck that has the names of the kings names on the card and the most popular idea of the queens names and if i can find enough information the jacks as well
the king of hearts is not stabbing himself. you have to look at the patterns of the sleeve holding the sword and the sleeve of the kings hand on his chest
It's supposed to be one of the queens doing him in.
It's the Q♠️'s hand holding the sword on the K♥️ card!
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Hearts - East - Water - Love - (Cups) Church;
Clubs - South - Fire - Power - (Scepters) Nobility;
Diamonds - West - Earth - Wealth - (Coins) Bourgeois;
Spades - North - Air - Health - (Swords) Military.
Hearts-West-Cups-Water-Feminine energy, Clubs- South-Wands-Fire-Masculine Energy, Diamonds-North- Pentacles-Earth-Strength, Spades-East-Swords-Air-Intellect/communication
But that's based off the Kabbalah. I guess one could assign any meaning they like though.
ty bc that was driving me nuts!
@@nadiasilver5762 yeah I know. I usually don't chime in, but the video was waaay off.
Spade - The standard house in SMB3
Heart - Appears only in SMA4 SMB3, which changes the Super Star into a Super Leaf giving 7 extra lives if matched instead of 5
Club - Same, but the 7up is now a number 3 giving 10 lives
Diamond - Guaranteed Win with Club picture
I love the 3 of diamonds...
The escape map hidden in the playing cards was the coolest!
I actually knew a couple of these, specifically #3 & #4. But the restroom I never heard of. Nice to learn something new.
I've never heard the King, Queen, and Jack referred to as "court cards". I've always known them as "face cards".
Kink, Queen and jack - members of Royalty, hence "Court Cards". (NOT the justice courts..... :-))
@Mike Rogers I know. I'm just saying I've never heard them called "court cards". They're "face cards".
I have also heard them called "Picture Cards" ??
It's an antiquated term. Because the Jack is not royalty (heard of the Royal Flush? - a hand used in poker), unlinke the King and Queen, somtimes they are refered to as Court Cards as to include him in.
It may be a transpondian thing. I'm in the UK, and I've always known them as court cards; "face cards" is understandable, but it sounds very "American".
Fun and interesting. Had to chuckle at "Why is the Ace of Spades is Different".
Came from the Tarot. Remove the Major Arcana, boom 52 cards. Four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water equate to (Diamonds/Pentacles/coins), (Spades/Swords), (Clubs/Wands) and (Hearts/Cups). The Jack, Queen, King and Ace are still represented pretty much the same as their Tarot counterparts. This being the Paige (Jack), Queen, King and Ace (These remain unchanged.) It has been said that the Tarot is the pictographic representation of the entirety of the body of knowledge contained in the Kabbalah. The knowledge therein, being considered heretical, was under attack. Books were being burned. So, in an attempt to preserve the secret knowledge, the information was condensed into comprehensive and highly symbolic images. These cards were then used to play many games (assumed to be primarily gambling games), to ensure their preservation. The wise men knew that mans love of gambling would not ever fail. The designs and iterations changed slightly from culture to culture and, over the years, evolved into the cards we know today.
That's just from my own research. Feel free to add/correct anything I might have wrong. Just my two sense. Cheers!
As i understand it the arcana came later so its more the other eay around. Even with tarot there original purpose was playing games, a trick taking game along the lines of spades, the fortune telling and mystocal associations came later.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia technically the fortune telling came after the philosophical parts. One thing the tarot was used for is to trach, especially since a huge majority of people during the 1800s and earlier were illiterate. The symbology on the cards were meant to teach and instruct those people.
The thing about number 2 is that it is, obviously, POSSIBLE to have all 52 cards be in order, but it is highly IMPROBABLE. At some point in card history, past or future, it has/will happen.
the highest count the playing deck reach was 56 not 52 as there were four picture cards called the so an original royal flush was knight, prince, queen, king and ace
I still have a deck of 'aircraft identification' playing cards from when I was a G.I. in the 1970s; they feature silhouettes (front, side, and top) of NATO/Warsaw Pact aircraft on the backs of the cards (where the nekkid people's pics usually are). The idea was to foster a better awareness of 'who's are whose' if one ever found him/herself on an AA gun during an actual camp-out.....
In 1919 my grandfather visited Paris while in the army. He brought back many souvenirs. One was a deck of playing cards. There was a naked girl on every card. These were extremely popular with U.S. servicemen. I still have that deck. It is still nearly mint condition because it was never played.
For those servicemen, indeed for Most men, it was probably the most exciting deck they ever came across!
I think it was a popular form of pinup in wwi
You just had me intrigued about these cards very interesting, thank you for sharing
3:42
Why not also mention that all the other Kings have only 2 hands on their cards, the KoH has 4, which leads credence to the 'King being killed' theory??
@ 5:31 only if you add as their perspective position within the deck. Face cards are usually worth 10 in most cases. This does not add up to 365 if you value the face cards at 10. Only when 11 for Jack, 12 for the Queen and 13 for the King does this add up to 365 with a joker...
3:32 You say "lack of facial hair" while showing the king and his glorious beard. Last I checked, beards are most definitely "facial hair".
Besides that, there are hundreds of differendly drawn kings of heart and this is the ONLY one without a moustache.
He said without a mustache at beginning
Compared to the others that's a correct term....don't worry manhood is measured by a man's decency, not the amount of hair he can grow.
That’s 3:53
With regards to #10, an even more remarkable card-related expression is "playing both sides against the middle". It came from a common method of cheating casinos would use in the largely-forgotten game of faro during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I find it really odd that no mention of Tarot decks being the basis of the 52-card deck is made.
It’s not odd to not mention that. It’s correct to leave it out. The producers of this video probably did their homework and therefore were correct in leaving that claim out, because playing cards actually pre-date Tarot, though both originated in the late 13th century. (Some reports indicate that playing cards originated in the 13th century and the Tarot originated in the mid to late 14th century.) I use both playing cards and Tarot cards for magic and for Cartomancy, (as well as some other ‘Oracle’ type decks), and their history and use, (particularly for divination), fascinates me.
Regardless, paying cards came first and Tarot was originally just the 22 Major Arcana and were created for, and used for, playing card games. They were not a 78 card deck until quite a bit after the 52 card deck had already originated and had been used for Cartomancy, (like a couple of centuries later). Those 52 playing cards were added to the Tarot deck as the bulk of the Minor Arcana, (with the Pages for each of the four suits being added to the Tarot deck, despite it not having been in the playing card deck). According to historical records, even after adding the 52 cards to create the Minor Arcana portion of the deck, Tarot cards were only used for gaming and were not used for Cartomancy, (divination), until about 1750.
Surprisingly u started but never got into them being the original tarot deck but somethings I did not knw very informative thanks. 😊
Suicide kings*, plural.
The king of diamonds is also a suicide king, with an axe right above his neck. They are called suicide kings because they look like they're committing suicide and they're red in color, blood is red. The king of diamonds is also one of the only two cards that holds an axe. The other being the jack of hearts.
also diamonds and hearts are red
The one thing I would have liked to know is if there was any relationship between the Minor Arcana and 52 decks and if so why the Page didn't make the transition. On a side note the Fool of the Major Arcana is sometime connected with the Joker.
WHAT AMAZED ME WAS THE FACT THIS VIDEO WAS MADE AT ALL.
Not actually. There is a lot of information on the history of playing cards out there. For example, the indexes int he corners of cards were actually so revolutioary they were patendted in the 1860s.
A 10 min vid for ten card secerets. I love the creativity..... Waiiiiiiiiit a minute
"Heart represents female"
Now that's why Cute Pink loves the Heart Zone
RED (originally CUPS and COINS, i.e. the "round suits"): King, (Queen), Knight, Jack/Knave/Valet, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (lowest).
BLACK (orig. SWORDS, STAVES, i.e. the "long suits"): King, (Queen), Knight, Jack/Knave/Valet, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A (lowest).
The Queen did not exist in some old decks (German, Spanish); she did in Tarot-type decks.
In Austrian decks only the top four pips were retained (for Tarock, Königrufen); the others being stripped out.
I love jokers... I have close to 600 different now in my collection... can´t you make a video about them???
MrMushroomBrain i have boxes of them i use when I'm practicing some cardistry or throwing, or gaff.
cool!
MrMushroomBrain that would be a cool video to see 👍🏻
I agree, jokers are so exciting!
Hi, I used to collect Jokers aswell, I had around 450, when unfortunately they were stolen in a burglary, strange thing to steal but still. Wasn't you was it?
I remember hearing about the Ace of spades in the Vietnam war. One that wasn't here that I'd heard in the past was that the suicide king was actually a result of poor art. The sword is drawn back behind his head, but somewhere along the line, foreshortening was omitted.
1: You wrote "Followed Suite" instead of "Suit"
2: While rifle shuffling is certainly effective at preventing cheating, it also leaves a hole in your deck. You meant to say _riffle_ shuffling, as in the sound the cards make when they slide and slap against each other.
I was surprised about the story of aces. But liked the whole video very much.
The king of hearts represents victory
very interesting ....what surprise me the most was at the very end...about the cards helping out our military....makes me want to buy cards just for the pure sentiment that it might of saved some our boys lives.
Are we just going to not talk about how the four suits: Cups, Coins, Swords, and Sticks come from tarot cards?
Maybe so or maybe not Who can really specify the real meaning of tarot cards.
It's actually the opposite.
Tarot was invented AFTER the playing cards.
Wow....is that actually a true fact...?
@@zakpint1317
Yes. Playing cards go as far back as 1377.
Tarot didn't make its arrival until the 1500's.
Yeah, it's ridiculous that tarot was not even mentioned in this video.
Awesome video and really interesting fact about playing cards that I did not know. Thanks!
6:08 DC Comics' Royal Flush Gang cameo
Dorky Child picture books with barely any words where the characters can fly and do physically impossible shit; gambling; and city slickers who wear there snot rags on there heads, still carry snot rags (and wear them on there head, gross) kill people, steal, rape, sell drugs to those too young to make informed decisions about drugs, and yet have no clue why they are hated and why law enforcement constantly annoys them; and a type of play. Interesting combination.
Great video! Never realized the king of hearts did not have mustache!
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Awesome to see at 1:48 the castle with the welsh flag. 🏴
at 6:31 the king of hearts has a mustache ...
In the Bicycle deck he doesn’t have a mustache. All of the pictures of him without a mustache were bicycle cards.
Fact 11 The 7 of Dimonds is the only ◇ card that can't be upside down!
Playing cards came from Tarot cards. Because it was illegal to tell someone their fortune, whenever someone was seen giving a reading they would say they were playing a game. The 4 suits were clubs/wands, diamonds/coins, spades/swords and hearts/cups.
Sorry that is untrue. Playing cards came first, then tarot cards came later. It's a myth playing cards came from Tarot cards
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1:55 The reason Hearts represent the Church is because of a corruption. Originally, the suit was called Choeurs, which meant Choristers (ie Monks). At some point, however, this morphed into Coeurs, which is French for Hearts.
One question, for me, that still remains unanswered is, "Why is it called a 'deck' of cards?"
In Cards of destiny (readings with playing cards), it is known as an unbound book, because the story is always different.
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I have never heard the expression "to come up trumps".
therefore, i don't believe it is 'used commonly today' as the video suggests.......but, whatever.......
Radio Active - Come up trumps is very popular here in the UK.... especially amongst the betting circles
+stephen wilson tanks for the info, we Yanks have a lot of different sayings than you Brits.
Radio Active Now There's a video I'd quite like to see
I've heard it, though it's a bit old fashioned.
Wow. #1 really is cool, though. Never would have thought. Guessed that's why it was such a kick-ass idea.
Ace of Spades is a great song by Motorhead!!
Windows 1995 sampled their album cover
THAT WAS A BADASS VIDEO, BRO! REALLY ENJOYED IT! I'll be honest... I've been playing with cards for almost 25 years now and even like to think of myself at this moment as a semi-pro card player and yet I think I maybe knew 1 or 2 of the 10! GREAT VIDEO AND GLAD I WATCHED! #ThumbsUpButton
you did not talk about the correlation between the cards and the minor arcana of the tarot deck. Gypsies and fortune tellers would bring the major Arcana when meeting a client and the client would bring a deck of cards with them and they would be combined to create a tarot deck. then the fortune would be told and the deck split up again. this way, in hopes, the fortune teller and the citizen would not be caught and there for tried for witchcraft.
Teri Whittlinger Ahhh. I like the thought of that. Stickin it to the man
The song " Deck of Cards" is rather nice, too!
Never tell me the odds ! Quot han solo from anh
It seems to me that you mixed up two of the suits when you were speaking of their meaning. In my studies they have always been correlated thusly,
Fire - Wands - Clubs - Will
Air - Swords - Spades - Intellect
Water - Cups - Hearts - Emotion
Earth - Coins - Diamonds - The body and practicality.
You listed spades as fire and clubs as air. Do you have a source for that?