The ibis, with its brilliant white feathers and narrow, curved beak, was the sacred bird of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and writing. Beginning about 600 B.C., ibises were frequently ...

Congrats, you have your first (or third? twelfth?) tarot deck (maybe The Cosmo Tarot???)! But, um, now what? While you can gaze at the different cards, touch them, shuffle them, talk to them, dream ...

In Italo Calvino’s 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies, two groups of travelers bed down for the night in a forest. One group heads for the castle. The other goes to a tavern. Under normal ...