According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.
Tarot is just stories on cards.
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.