Originally Posted by damascus
Eeb I think many people could come up with an answer to your question. Lets set the scene driven shooting was the sport of the Aristocracy and the very rich and those people had many strange rules of what not to do and how to act. So I will start with a pack of playing cards to some people a pack of cards are known as the Devils Bible bringers of bad luck, bringing a pack of cards into a room can mean luck goes out of the window. Like putting shoes on a table was not a good thing to do bringing bad luck and death. The worst of these upper class idiosyncrasies was regarding Lord Cardigan famous for the charge of the Light Brigade at Crimea, and also for "THE Black Bottle" incident, for reasons he was brought up with you should not have a black bottle on a dinner table this act by someone caused a very large out of proportion incident. And finally shooting with black powder is called by some "as chasing the Devils coat tails" that is the way things are and the world would be a far duller place without this type of thing. These are just a few that come to mind though there are many more.

Interesting take on a simple deck of playing cards. Nothing inherently evil about them, just as there's nothing evil about a gun ............ how an object is used often determines it's worth. Each time I hear of those who disparage a deck of playing cards I remember this song, which I first heard listening to the radio, probably the Grand Ole Opry, as a child.


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