Do you recognize the customer?

These "weight and fortune" machines used to be found in every store.

Occultists like to claim that the Tarot cards are of mystical, unknown origin, tracing back beyond ancient Egypt. Actually, the reverse is true, because the Tarot deck was invented during the Renaissance to play a specific game, called Triumphs or Trumps. Instead, it is the origin of the standard, regular 52 card deck with 4 suits that emerges so far back in the mists of history that it is difficult to trace in detail. [Some readers do insist on using regular playing cards to tell fortunes, for this reason.]