Although usually used for games, including card games with wagering, playing cards are also used for divination (so called cartomancy), illusions and tricks, and even for building unsteady houses of cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS] Reference

Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

This isn't based on that cartomancy idea you mentioned to me in Mexico, is it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Word For Map is Faith] Reference

For example, I knew that Chinese zombies jump instead of shuffle (moriarty6 says it has something to do with rigor mortis); and I've got a passing familiarity with the basics of cartomancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [In honor of the date: 6/6/6 - Shaolin Vs. Evil Dead] Reference

` The art of cartomancy, or divination by playing-cards, dates from an early period of their obscure history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2] Reference

Well you can by consulting cartomancy, usually this is labeled as entertainment purposes only, however you will be very surprised at how accurate these readings can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Online News - Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Information and Celebrity Reports. Celebrity RSS Feed Available] Reference

You will probably be unacquainted with the meaning which attaches to the figure of the product, but it will occur to you that the 9 of spades is regarded as the disappointment in cartomancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

In this work there is a somewhat different account of cartomancy to that which I have expounded ` on the best authorities 'and from practical experience with the adepts in the art; but, in a matter of such immense im portance to ladies of all degrees, I have thought proper to give, in foot-notes, the differing interpretations of the writer in the Book of Days, who professes to speak with some authority, not however, I think, superior to mine, for I have investigated the subject to the utmost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2] Reference

+ cartomancy, by playing cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference