# Mantis's little Tarot joke

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 May 2000*

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### Adam Stephanides
*07 May 2000, 09:49*

> mantis wrote:
> The
> 52 deck, aka the deck of standard playing cards, forms the basis for the
> JCdeck (not to be confused with "the Crowley Tarot"!!)

Heh.  For those who don't get it (I didn't until I read up a bit on the
Tarot), "Crowley" here is not John but Aleister, the well-known British
occultist, who designed his own Tarot deck with the help of Freida
Harris.

--Adam

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