Folklore, myths, and anecdotal info on playing cards.
The Curse of Scotland: The nine of diamonds was supposedly christened thus after being used by John Dalrymple, Secretary of State and Master of Stair, to pass on instructions for the infamous Glen Coe Massacre of 1692. Whether or not he did write "Kill them all" on this pasteboard, the arrangement of the nine diamonds on its face bears some resemblance to the Dalrymple crest of arms, which can also account for the association of this card with that man.
Aces and Eights: Bill Hickok, so they say, was shot dead during a poker game in which he held two pairs, aces and eights. (The fifth card remains one of history's mysteries.) That holding has subsequently come to be known as the "Dead Man's Hand" and is commonly placed into the hands of characters in Westerns who meet their demises before the end of the film
Black Jacks: Such a two-card combination is said to bring poverty and unhappiness.
Red Jacks: Such a pair signals its holder has an enemy unknown to him.
The Devil's Bedpost: Also called "The Devil's Four-Poster," and "The Devil's Four-Poster Bed," and "The Devil's Bedstead," the four of clubs is believed by many to be a blight upon any hand into which it is dealt, turning good cards bad (that is, transforming favorable-looking combinations into losers as play develops). Players feel particularly cursed if the four of clubs is dealt to them on the first hand of the session.
I think playing cards originally came from tarot cards/ vice versa around the ancient Chinese time or something. You can use a regular deck of cards as tarot cards, they're pretty much the same.
http://www.tarotcardmeanings.net/tarot-playingcards.htm
Superstition has it that ill results await the player who engages in a game of cards on a bare table rather than upon one covered by cloth. (Which, in a way, makes some sense: cards could possible be read during the deal as they passed over a polished surface. Or more likely slide off the table on to the floor if you're a bit ham-handed. )
Sitting cross-legged is bad luck as well. One is, after all, making a cross and therefore working a hex sign on oneself.
Playing in a room where there's a dog is frowned upon. Pooches bring bad luck to card players.
Re-seating yourself can change bad luck to good by getting up and walking around your chair or the table. When in desperate straits, turn your chair around and sit astride it. ("Turn your chair and turn your luck.") To re-seat yourself without the other players knowing what you're about, slip your handkerchief between your bottom and the chair, thus breaking contact with the unlucky seat.
Hangman's Rope: Carry a bit of it in your pocket to bring good luck at cards.
Picking up or playing one's cards with the left hand: The left hand has long been associated with evil ("sinister" was born of a Latin word that had two meanings: "on the left side" and "unfavorable/harmful"), so handling one's cards with this ill-favored appendage presages a bad outcome.
Those who thieve for a living are said to accord the pasteboards respect: burglars, they say, rarely steal playing cards when raiding homes lest their doing so turn fortune against them and result in their being caught. (Ergo, to punish a burglar, hide a set of cards in something he's likely to make off with, thereby decking his haul.)
I find this chart interesting, but alas the only deck I tried it out on it did not work.
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So what do we have about ol' Ace of Spades? Anything you've got please, very intrigued by this one
>>17485936
You are full on retarded if you think the sleeve of the hand with the sword looks more like the queen's than the king's
man as an aspiring poker player there's nothing better then a card thread.
especially the aces eights because i live in dodge city ks which at one time was a major cattle/gambling hub.
there's nothing better then sitting down for a game of poker the comradery, the emotional swings of winning big or losing big, strike it rich or go broke trying nature of the game.
uselessly bumping for more. this stuff is interesting.
>>17486682
>You are full on retarded if you think the sleeve of the hand with the sword looks more like the queen's than the king's
No fuckin' duh Captain Obvious. That's what >>17485936 says about the chart.
Death card of Vietnam, put on dead NVA as a call ig card and warning. Kinda didn't translate between cultures though as one officer noted.
"I told him that it was a bad idea and a case of transposed symbolism. We Americans look at the ace of spades as the death card, but to the Vietnamese it is more like a phallic symbol and if anything might suggest that we were involved in necrophilia."
Playing cards are based on the calendar year. A pack of playing cards is rooted in its mathematics in the set of twelve months we call the 365-day (366 in leap years, like this one) year.
For example, there are 52 cards in a standard deck (not Pinochle, and without the jokers), and there are 52 weeks in a year. There four seasons, and four suits: clubs (the three-leafed clover), diamonds, spades (the black suit with the points, possibly resembling a gardener's spade), and hearts. Also, if you add up all the cards by rank value, with jacks as 11, queens as 12, and kings as 13, you get 364, the number of days in a year, roughly (365 is not divisible by 4)
4(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13)
4(91)
364
>>17487845
What happened here?
>>17487860
Beniz
>>17485936
It's not the queen, but still curious as to who it is. This is all the info I could find so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:King_%28playing_card%29
>I was taught once that the King of Hearts was Julius Caesar because in the portrait of the King of Hearts, the king is being stabbed in the back by another hand. Julius Caesar's death was supported by his right hand man, Brutus, so it represented him being stabbed in the back by his ally.
But that person isn't sure if the story is true or not.
>>17487887
bruthas*
>>17487890
wat
/x/ mentions Penn & Teller often: When they do a card trick "the card" involved is almost always the three of clubs. Nothing mystical about it, they decided it was the card that shows up best and is easiest to identify on a TV screen so they force it a lot. So much it's become a bit of an in-joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller#Tricks
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Penn & Teller even have the three of clubs on their grave stone. ( Hey, they're like that. ) It was featured in a card trick explained here:
http://www.scoutingla.com/this-gravestone-knows-what-card-youre-thinking-of/
Keep going, this is interesting.
What about the card designs for computer Solitaire and such, OP? Do those have any meaning attached to them yet?
>>17485891
Path of light
>>17491827
the suicide king
>>17485868
How do I perform fortune telling and divination with my playing cards like tarot cards?
>>17495128
just make a tarot deck you lazy fuck
draw some pictures and glue them onto playing cards or some shit
>>17495128
>How do I perform fortune telling and divination with my playing cards like tarot cards?
Way to not read the thread.
see: >>17485892
>>17495121
>the suicide king
see; >>17485936
>>17495133
Trying so hard to be a /b/tard that he totally didn't understand anon's question.
>>17495136
But that theory is wrong.
Last bump for OP I guess
Can I get some info the colorless and colored joker, they apparently like to appear in my life often.
>>17498673
>Can I get some info the colorless and colored joker, they apparently like to appear in my life often.
In Latin America Joker tattoos are a Bad Idea, guess they mean 'Cop Killer'. Cops don't like them.
Related vids:
Forced to remove Joker Tattoo with sandpaper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEgXpgYinGM
Forced to apologize for having, what they're calling a 'clown' tattoo: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2bb_1397845717
>>17485868
Does metasymbology aka the deck of cards horoscope have any merit?
http://metasymbology.com/index.html
http://metasymbology.com/whatsyourcard.html
>And now all the money is mine. Because crybaby hit on 17 again!
>>17498023
what is this symbol? i've seen it around here a few times
>>17499327
Goetic sigil of Murmur.
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>>17485868
gr8 thread op
>>17498673
Colored jokers go in the back of the deck.
>>17498029
That's kawaii.
