Tidal pull, the coming sleep,
void-made call, the ringing deep,
from noise of life, the sudden cease,
to aching which seems to have no ease.

In the night that echoed wonder:
of each and every cursed blunder.
And in the quiet, close to sleeping,
the demon doubt crouches, creeping.

So turn to pillow, pad, and quilting,
the lullaby so sweetly lilting.
Dream and pass from pain to sunrise,
from ache to wake, the demon excise.

The Muzoracle is a card and dice divination system and art dice set for inspiring musical compositions, developed by American songwriter and mystic Jeff S. Kingfisher, using components which are compatible and interchangeable with those used in Kingfisher's musical board game, Muzundrum.

The Muzoracle package features an 89-card deck (the Muzoracle proper), as well as thirteen dice, one of which is a black 12-sided "musician's die" showing the 12 pitches (from A

Martin Guerre was an otherwise unremarkable French peasant who lived in the mid 16th century and became famous to history as the center of a celebrated case of alleged identity theft and impersonation that occurred in the village of Artigat in the region of Gascony.

Born around 1524, Martin married a fellow peasant woman, Bertrande de Rols, in 1538 when he was around 14 years old. However, in 1548, Martin mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving Bertrande and their