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pissmoon · 10 months ago

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There is an interesting link between gambling and fortune telling traditions. Tarot was first a gambling game. Just read mahjong is also used for both gambling and fortune telling. Gamblers can be very supersticious people with 'kaballah' theories (thats what they call them - 11 then 29 is a 'kaballah') on roulette numbers and weird ideas about how their luck in the game depends on things like chip colors and which hand they cut a card deck with

#i bought tarot game cards on a flea market but i dont understand how the game works at all #and drawings on major arcana cards dont make much sense when u compare to tarot cards with same number #also it was so random. it was the first flea market ive been to n they were the first thing i saw!!!#on mahjong im not an expert so correct me if im wrong

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