It began in the 14th century as a popular parlour game.
The original tarot cards were just playing cards.
But even so, players of tarot were sceptical.
Some, Nobles in particular, considered certain cards such as the
Death card, the Devil card, and the Tower card pretty offensive.
These images on the cards caused religious leaders to attempt to ban the Trumps due to its (as they believed) Satanic connections.
But, truth be told, it was more because Tarot was something that most religious leaders didn’t really understand.
Tarot took away much of their control over the peasants.