cartomancyn.
/ˈkɑːtəʊˌmansi/ Divination by playing-cards.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by symbols, letters, figures, etc. > [noun] > by playing cards
cartomancy1871
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 114 Cartomancy, the art of fortune-telling with packs of cards.
1886 Newscastle Weekly Chron. 29 May 3/1 It is said that the earliest work on cartomancy was written or compiled by Francesco Marcolini, and printed at Venice, in 1540..Cartomancy was very fashionable in England during the eighteenth century. Numbers of young ladies used to consult the cards to know whom, when, and where they would marry.
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