Cartomancy
![The Fortune Teller, by Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, depicting a cartomancer](/Images/godic/202501/03/Michail_Alexandrowitsch_Wrubel_0013032.jpg")
![Lucas van Leyden, La Tireuse de cartes, 1508, Paris, Musée du Louvre.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Lucas_van_Leyden_-_Kartenlegerin_-_1200_dpi3032.jpg")
Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were first introduced into Europe in the 14th century. Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers.