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Maritxu (María) Erlantz Guller [a] (Isaba, Navarre 1912 [1] – San Sebastian, 1993 [2]), also known as the "sorgin ona" or white witch of Ulia, was a teacher, tarot reader and fortune teller who supposedly had paranormal powers. [3] Maritxu studied to become a teacher in Pamplona and subsequently worked as a teacher in Irañeta during the ...
The Tarot of Marseilles is a standard pattern of Italian-suited tarot pack with 78 cards that was very popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing tarot card games and is still produced today. It was probably created in Milan before spreading to much of France, Switzerland and Northern Italy.
Galician Tarok (Polish: Tarok galicyjski) is a form of Tarot card game played by three players with a pack of 42 cards that was formerly popular in southern Poland.It is over 100 years old and may be related to the current Polish Taroki four-hand variant in which a King is called for a partner.
Tarot cards have two distinct uses. As playing cards they were invented in Europe in the 15th century for playing games and are still used for that purpose. From the late 18th century, certain Italian-suited tarot packs were utilised for fortune telling - a practice known as tarotology - nowadays bespoke packs are produced specifically for this purpose.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is a divinatory tarot guide, with text by A. E. Waite and illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith.Published in conjunction with the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, the pictorial version (released 1910, dated 1911) [1] followed the success of the deck and Waite's (unillustrated 1909) text The Key to the Tarot. [2]
Pamela Colman Smith (16 February 1878 – 18 September 1951), nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist.She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith deck) for Arthur Edward Waite.
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Oswald Wirth. Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth (5 August 1860, Brienz, Canton of Bern – 9 March 1943) was a Swiss occultist, artist and author.He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislas de Guaita and in 1889 he created, under the guidance of de Guaita, a cartomantic Tarot consisting only of the twenty-two Major Arcana. [1]