Batons (suit)

Batons is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard Latin deck along with the suits of Cups, Coins and Swords. Before 1800, French cardmakers, who also made Spanish card games, called them cartes à bâtons.

Suit of Batons from an 18th-century Venetian card game.

Characteristics

In Spanish, the Batons are called bastos; and in Italian, bastoni. In cartomancy and occultist circles, the suit of Batons is usually called Wands.[1]

Notes and references
  1. Dummett, Michael. A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot. Bloomsbury (1996), p. 47.
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