![]() His unruly beard and feathers may relate to the tradition of the woodwose or wild man. He has what appear to be feathers in his hair. In the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck, the Fool wears ragged clothes and stockings without shoes, and carries a stick on his back. In the earliest tarot decks, the Fool is usually depicted as a beggar or a vagabond. These archaic words mean "the madman" or "the beggar", and may be related to the word for 'checkmate' in relation to the original use of tarot cards for gaming purposes. The Fool is titled Le Mat in the Tarot of Marseilles, and Il Matto in most Italian language tarot decks. This depiction resembles the Fool in the earliest surviving painted decks. Iconography A standard medieval allegory of Foolishness, painted by Giotto from Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. However, in decks designed for playing traditional tarot card games, it is typically unnumbered, as it is not one of the 21 trump cards and instead serves a unique purpose by itself. In tarot card reading, it is one of the 22 Major Arcana, sometimes numbered as 0 (the first) or XXII (the last). ![]() The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. Major Arcanum The Fool from the Rider–Waite tarot deck
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