Boiteau was the first writer who definitely identified Tarot cards with the Gipsies; “for him, however, the original Gipsy home was in India, and Egypt did not therefore enter into his calculation.”
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination by L. W. De Laurence Section 4 THE TAROT IN HISTORY
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