Chapter VI: The Atouts of the Tarots 124-174

Consultation of the divinities--Wave offerings--Prayers--
Priests and Priestess--Hermetic books--Ishtar--Rods--
Jackstraws--Rites--Graven images--Divining arrows--
L'Ombre--Egyptian gods on the cards--Number One--The
Pagat--Quotation--Baton de Jacob--Meaning of Rod--Choice
of the boy--Lottery Chart--Aleph--Meaning--Bohas and
Jakin--Initiation of youth--Tablets of fate--Korean
superstitions--Fringes of temple--Numbers or letters--
Number Two--La Papesse--Isis--Emblems--Qualities--Eve--
Derivation of name--de Gebelin--Juno--Emerald Tablet--Mr.
Willshire--Juno's worshippers--Ritual of dead--Beth--
Number Three--The Empress--Maut--Attributes--
Significances--Figure--Gimel--Dress--Girdle--Titles--
Number Four--Emperor--Ammon--Daleth--Persian cards--
Titles--Invocation--Number Five--Le Papa--Phthah--
Attributes--Hands--Fatima--Number Five's Meaning--Number
Six--Lovers--Cupid--Significance--Vau--Symbolism--Number
Seven--Chariot--Mystic meanings--Zain--Arrows--Marked Yes
and No--Chinese sticks--Mercury--Pythagoras--The occult
seven--Three ages of the world--Seven evil spirits--Hymn
to them in Assyric--Seven in the Bible--Other references
to that number--Number Eight--Justice--Ma or Truth--The
Judge--Attributes--Tiemei--Heth--Ceres--Cups--Number
Nine--The Hermit--Aspect--Diogenes--Significance--Rod--
Texts--Typical of shelter--Teth--Number Eight--Rota,
Wheel of Fortune--Osiris--Anubis--Typhon--The Circle--
Wheels of Ezekiel and Pythagoras--Yod--Termius--Use of
Yod--Anubis called the Lord of Burying Ground--As jackal--
Number Eleven--Strength--Mystic hat--Una--Amazons--Kaph--
Goddess Neith--Emblems--Inscription on her shrine--
Brides--Number Twelve--Il Pendu--Hanged man--Freemason's
signals--Pagat--Lamed--Its meanings--Vulcan--Number
Thirteen--Death--Skeleton--Proverb--Horse of Aurora--Bad
luck--Its reasons--Mem and its meanings--Number Fourteen--
Temperance--Nut or Nepte--Titles and description--Nun--
Oil--Oblations--Number Fifteen--Devil--Set or Sutech--
Parents--Title of Hyksos kings--Ears--Zam--Significances--
Number Sixteen--Tower--Lighting god--Castle of Plutus--
Rameses II and the thieves--Bael--Enlil--Second Dynasty
of Ur--Dr. Radau's translations--Goddess Nin-Mar's hymn--
Ayin--Number Seventeen--The stars--Dog star--Nebo's
mountain--Hebe--Oblations--Gazelle--Typification--Number
Eighteen--La Lune--Attributes--Tzaddi--Diana--Number
Nineteen--The sun--Zoph--Ra and Rameses--Number Twenty--
Day of Judgment--Resh--Significance--Pluto--Ishtar--
Epitaph of Lord de Ros--Number Twenty-one--Le Monde--
Verity--Four Apostolic emblems--Their manifold meanings--
Tau--Le Fou or the Joker--Mat--Emblems--Shin--Gypsies--
Early Tarots--Intention of Atouts--Bible of Gypsies.

CHAPTER VII--PIPS OF THE TAROT PACK 175-195

Suits--Court cards--German, Spanish, Italian and French
cards--Emblems of Mercury--Four castes--Lucky devices--
Addha--Nari--Phallus--Cteis--Vau--Jod-He-Vau-He--Divining
arrows--Golden rod--Numbers 17--Symbols of the
Israelites--Indian--Typical of families--Chinese
fortune-telling--Zeichiku--Meisir games of Arabia--Naib
or prophet--Trèfle--Coppas--Assyrian cup--Cup-bearers--
Saki-bearer--Jamshid--Omar Kayyam--Golden cup--Texts--
Hall of Two Truths--Osiris--Ma--Thoth--Espadas or Piques--
Argiphontes--Meaning of sword in Hebrew--Pitch-pot--Money
suit--Collars--Zones--Meaning of suits--Numerical value--
Court cards--Their meaning--Seventy-eight Tarots--Rods of
Aaron.

CHAPTER VIII--SOME OLD ITALIAN TAROTS 196-207

Mysteries--St. Paul--Osiris--Bewildered historians--
"Portrayed on the walls"--Nebo the Writer--Gypsies--The
crossed palm--Spanish cards--The Egyptian fleet--Essay of
Count Emiliano di Parravicino--Professional teachers of
early days--Cards belonging to the Duke di Visconti--The
Royal pack--The artist da Tortona--A wedding gift--Old
Tarots--The artist Cicognara--Historic cards--The
proverb--Fibbias Tarocci--Museum at Bergamo--Victoria and
Albert Museum--Beautiful Tarots.

CHAPTER IX--HEARTS AND DIAMONDS. SPADES AND CLUBS 208-221

Oldest French pack--The costumes--Charles VI--The
marriage fête--The fire--Original French Piquet pack--
Invention of French pips--Vignoles and Chevalier--Jacques
Coeur--The Palace at Bourges--Money or Carreaux--Swords
or piques--Sticks or Tréfles--The pun--Red and black--The
startling inquiry--Tarots, Playing Cards or the Book of
Thoth--Ignorance of writers--French cards born three
hundred years ago--Vignolles--Chevalier and Jacques
Coeur--Piquet--Agnes Sorel--Black and red--de Gebelin's
history--Confusion--Discussion--Prejudice.

CHAPTER X--COURT CARDS WITH FRENCH PIPS 222-244

Paio--Stock--Widow--Bunch--Pips--Court cards--Their
historic derivation--The number of pip and court cards--
The Joker--His origin in America--Cunning Mercury--
Fantastic designs--Conservative court dresses--
Double-headed and index cards--Costume of the Kings--
Their attributes and headgear--Charles of France--Old
Tarots in Paris--French cards--The names on the French
cards--La Hire--The dress of the knaves--Their
attributes--Patch the court fool--Nicknames--The Bowers--
Skat--Le Valet--Le Fante--Il Soto--Der Ober--Der Unter--
The Queens--Elizabeth of York--Her husband's picture--The
history of Elizabeth our Queen of Cards--Her birth,
education, betrothal and costume--The jilting Dauphin--
Louis XI--Marriage--The poem--The credulous queen--The
elegy of Sir Thomas More--Elizabeth's effigy in
Westminster Abbey--Card backs--Messages and invitations.

CHAPTER XI--POINT CARDS WITH FRENCH PIPS 245-252

The Pique--Its names--Dr. Stukley's cards--A Picke--
Clubs, the emblem of Agnes Sorel--Hearts--The Ace--The
Earl of Cork--Le Borgne--Spanish nicknames--The Deuce--
The curse of Scotland--Duke of Cumberland--Chinese card
and counter boxes--Pope Joan--Trey--Nicknames for the
four and five spots--"Grace's card"--Lady Dorothy Nevill--
The origin of visiting cards--The backs--Derivation of the
name of Tarot--The reverse designs--Dolls and their
furniture from cards--Thackeray's invitation--Sir Jeffry
Amhurst's bid to a ball--Luck at Piquet.