[Regia-NA] False: The four kings in a deck of playing cards represent Charlemagne, David, Caesar, and Alexander

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jeanne Papanastasiou wrote:

> To dispel this myth:  http://www.snopes.com/history/world/cardking.htm
>
> Claim:   The four kings in a deck of playing cards represent Charlemagne,
> David, Caesar, and Alexander.
> Status:   False.

This is fairly well known, actually, at least amongst the historical
groups. :-)  It goes right along with the myth about ring-around-the-rosy
and the Black Death, or that stupid stupid list of 'well known phrases'
that describes the medieval origins of stuff like 'raining cats and dogs'
or the thing about the train tracks being determined by the width of a
horses arse.

-- Brett
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