Early German Stenciled Playing Card Deck Fragment

About the Deck

Provenance

Germany, before 1500

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Success coming that will balance loss.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Conquest of fortune by reason.

Reversed

Troubles in love.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Lover or Mistress, Love, Sweetness, Affection, Pure and Chaste Love

Reversed

Disgraceful Love, Imprudence, License, Profligacy.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

parents' death will suddenly change your fate. If a man dies whom you first met on a Friday morning, you will have luck in the lottery; but if a woman in black is the first person you meet on a Saturday morning, you will have ill luck in the lottery.