Too Curious by Edward J. Goodman, 1887.

Dead by May Ostlere, 1891.

"Mould of a hand made in clay by spirits."  From Mysterious Discovery of Nature, Shown in a Dream to Dr. P. Polack, and Relating Directly to the Question of the Discovery of the North Pole by Peter Pooley, 1910.

From The Curly-Haired Hen, written and illustrated by Auguste Vimar, 1914.

From Perin's Science of Palmistry by Carl Louis Perin, 1902.

This is the giant woodcutter "Direach Ghlinn Eitidh MacCallain, the desert creature of Glen Eiti, the son of Colin," who goes by the name of Fachan.  From Popular Tales of the West Highlands by John Francis Campbell, 1860.

Here's a precursor to the "let your fingers do the walking" ad campaign, from The Home Library by Arthur Penn, 1883.  This one goes out to all the E.J.s of the world.

Here's a precursor to Ram Dass's "be here now," from Canadian Grocer, 1898.

From The 'Loil' Legislature of Alabama by Benjamin Screws, 1868.

"By peace plenty.  By wisdome peace."  From The Complete Works of Edmund Spenser, 1882.

From España Negra, written and illustrated by Émile Verhaeren, 1899.

Here's Tom Thumb and his so-called wife, though it's as plain as the nose on your face that they're a same-digit couple.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

Moon Fish Ocean is our whimsical Zen version of "Rock Paper Scissors."  You can play the game online at the official website.

Here's a fun tip for taking the game on the road:

Use Moon Fish Ocean to navigate the maze of pathways in a formal garden (especially a garden with a koi pond!). You and your companion should throw a hand gesture at each crossroad or forked path. If the person on the left wins, go left. If the person on the right wins, go right. If it's a tie, continue walking straight ahead (or throw another round in the case of only two choices of direction). The game is guaranteed to lead you to all sorts of beautiful areas of the gardens you didn't know about, simply because you would never have gone down certain (less eye-enticing) paths. So Moon Fish Ocean can serve as a form of navigation in which Lady Luck dictates the itinerary.

A visitor asks:

It is not clear to me what makes this conducive to meditation. Is it being so focused on the activity that all else is put aside?

Like "walking meditation," Moon Fish Ocean can be a form of meditation in action, in which the experience of game play is the focus of heightened awareness.

Here's a precursor to Wenceslao Moreno's "Señor Wences" act, from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times by Henry Sampson, 1874.

The mysterious white hand, from The Great Jekyll Diamond by John Lawton Owen, 1897.

From Matthew Flinders by Robert Thynne, 1896.  The text reads, "Behind this hand neither land nor strand.  Jim's discovery in the ice plain."