Talk:Etteilla

Death date?

What evidence is there that Jean Alliette died in 1791? I ask because Alexandre Dumas wrote in "Horror At Fontenay" that he met him in person in 1809. --Justificatus (talk) 11:32, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

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This has been dropped, Inadvertently? Does it belong in the article?:

"Etteilla published his ideas of the correspondences between Tarot, astrology, and the four classical Elements and Four humours, and was the first to issue a revised Tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes." --Wetman 04:38, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Why is this article in the Magic (illusion) stub? -mkblack

Personal Life

Two of the three given 'citations' are simply not strong enough to substantiate the claim they make. His father was a maître rôtisseur--a caterer. Given the very limited amount of academic research that exists on this man, making claims without citing seems rather problematic. Gnosis1185 (talk) 19:41, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

"Way to recreate yourself"

I do not think this is a good translation, and I think we should say "way to entertain yourself", because "recreate yourself" suggests some sort of rebuilding or reinventing process. user:Nightsturm apparently disagrees and has reverted my edits, saying only "recreate, for the translation of French récréer", and I would like to know the reasoning behind that, if any.  Card Zero  (talk) 16:16, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Recreate is an appropriate translation of the original French word récréer (to recreate) used in Etteilla's French book title on the Tarot. It implies having fun with an activity as well as refreshing, restoring, or reanimating oneself or something after toil or exhaustion. This contrasts with the narrow interpretation of creating something again or reproducing something. Nightsturm (talk) 16:41, 1 August 2023 (UTC)