A few cards from a Visconti-Sforza tarot deck: Ace of cups, Queen of coins along with the Knight of batons The word "tarot"[23] and German Tarock derive with the Italian Tarocchi, the origin of which can be unsure, Whilst taroch was employed for a synonym for foolishness while in the late fifteenth and early 16th hundreds of years.[24][25] The deck