Another thing, why Agrippina was placed at the 21st trump,was probably for the reason that the mother of nero was born in what is now Colonge.

(p.s do you have an image of the 21st trump? if so, would you post it? thx.)

Thank you.
as a matter of of interest, diviniation via human entrails is called "anthropomancy"
a bit off topic I guess......

. [/quote]One thing of interest I discovered is this book- Alectryomantia, Seu Divinatio Magica cum Gallis Gallinaceis peracta http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/hr-331/start.htm which appears to be entirely about Divination with Chickens ! chickensign1.jpg I would really like to see a translation of this ...

. [/quote]One thing of interest I discovered is this book- Alectryomantia, Seu Divinatio Magica cum Gallis Gallinaceis peracta http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/hr-331/start.htm which appears to be entirely about Divination with Chickens ! chickensign1.jpg I would really like to see a translation of this ...

Tarot world got the 4 animals from it:

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the four animals rerpresent the four gospels. which particular animal to which gospel I've forgotten

theese things indeed look minchiate-ish. you can see a tower on fire a few cards away from the "time" card, and it looks like the card that replaces "the tower" in the minchiate

well I can explain the placing of the One of trump, for In the german game of tarock, the one of trump ("pagat") has a special role, and related to the "le battleur" of tarot, which is depicted as a magician, or trivial performer and so, the "pagat" is naturally a jeste...

Interesting job......

From the appearence of this deck, It looks like one of the countless decks published during the 18th-19thc. in Germany , where the norlma subjects of the trumps (love, death, world...) were replaced with scenes of countries, or pictures of animals- the variant with animals on them is still used in G...