In tarot card reading, the Fool is usually considered part of the Major Arcana. The two most common Fool cards in tarot card games, l'Excuse (left) of the Tarot Nouveau and the Sküs (right) of the Industrie und Glück. The fool may be the precursor of The Joker. The Fool is numbered with the zero, one of the Arabic numerals. Traditionally, the Major Arcana in tarot cards are numbered with Roman numerals. Still, there is historic precedent for regarding it as the lowest trump and as the highest trump. The Fool is almost always completely apart from the sequence of trumps in the historic decks. There are a few exceptions: some old decks (including the 15th-century Sola Busca) labelled the card with a 0, and the 18th-century Belgian decks labelled the Fool as XXII. In the decks before Waite–Smith, the Fool is almost always unnumbered. In French suited tarot decks that do not use the traditional emblematic images of Italian suited decks for the suit of trumps, the Fool is typically made up as a jester or bard, reminiscent of the Joker often included with the standard 52-card deck. The Fool holds a white rose (a symbol of freedom from baser desires) in one hand, and in the other a small bundle of possessions, representing untapped collective knowledge. In the Rider–Waite Tarot deck, he is also portrayed as having with him a small dog. In the Rider–Waite deck and other esoteric decks made for cartomancy, the Fool is shown as a young man, walking unknowingly toward the brink of a precipice. He appears to be getting chased away by an animal, either a dog or a cat. The Tarot of Marseilles and related decks similarly depict a bearded person wearing what may be a jester's hat he always carries a bundle of his belongings on a stick (called a bindle) slung over his back. A similar image is contained in the German Hofämterspiel there the fool (German: Narr) is depicted as a barefoot man in robes, apparently with bells on his hood, playing a bagpipe.
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This series of prints containing images of social roles, allegorical figures, and classical deities begins with Misero, a depiction of a beggar leaning on a staff. Another early Italian image that relates to the tradition is the first (and lowest) of the series of the so-called Tarocchi of Mantegna. 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 A standard medieval allegory of Foolishness, painted by Giotto from Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.
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