“It is generally accepted that the standard deck of playing cards we use for everything from three-card monte to high-stakes Vegas poker evolved from the Tarot. ‘Like our modern cards,’ writes Sallie Nichols, ‘the Tarot deck has four suits with ten ‘pip’ or numbered cards in each…. In the Tarot deck, each suit has four ‘court’ cards: King, Queen, Jack, and Knight.’ The latter figure has ‘mysteriously disappeared from today’s playing cards,’ though examples of Knight playing cards exist in the fossil record. ... The eminent psychiatrist Carl Jung, however, might have done so. ...”
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