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Pentagrams

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The History of the Rider Weight Deck of Tarot Cards

In the late 1800s, intellectuals in France and Britain who get into Satanism as a thing they fear and also have fun with is basically the deal. Because it has a pentagram on it, people then start to think pentagrams have always been evil. The symbol really takes off there. It becomes a popular symbol that's believed to be ancients and antique. Sif: Tarot was a big influence on 52 card deck of playing cards we have today.

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