The first recorded tarot cards showed up in Europe in the 15th century, with the most popular sets selling in Italy to wealthy families since tarot cards were hand-painted. The tarot decks were dozens of commissioned paintings.
Tarot cards, tarocchi cards in Italian, had trump cards and numbered cards. Tarot cards were not associated with the occult until the late 1700s.
The first association of the cards being used for divination was with Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Alliette. He actually wrote a guide to the tarot cards and released his own deck with it. He gave the meaning to each of the cards, beliefs associated with astronomy, journey, betrayal, married man and love. His beliefs were heavily associated with the Book of Thoth, an Egyptian text from the god of wisdom.
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