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Divining cards--Tablets of fate--Tarots--Gambling cards-- Their difference--Persian cards--Oldest emblems--Standard packs of Tarots--German designs--French designs--Rouge et Noir--Persia and Sweden--Writers on cards--The three gods--Derivation of name--Mercury and his predecessors-- Writer of E-Sigalia--Fortune-telling--The priest of Thoth--Speech--Italian Tarots--L'Ombre--From leaves to cards--Attributes of Mercury--Atouts--de Gebelin--From arrows to cards--Gambling sticks of King Qa--Rods-- Devices--Argiphontes--Cyllenius or Agoneus--Caduceator-- Chthonius--The study of cards--Rods--Many authorities-- Papus--Temple at Baiæ--Book of Thoth--Addha-Nari-- Heraldry--Tradesmen's signs--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu-- Terminus--Cestus--Pigs and tongues--Gazelle--Number Thirteen--Joker.