Early German Stenciled Playing Card Deck Fragment

About the Deck

Provenance

Germany, before 1500

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A dark young man. A friend.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.

Reversed

For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Departure, Separation, Disunion

Reversed

Rupture, Discord, Quarrel.