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Planchette is adjourned, and we're just winding up the discussion of the theory of it.
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Planchette is adjourned, and we're just winding up the discussion of the theory of it.
Planchette 1906
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The Planchette is a little heart-shaped board, having two legs, with tiny wheels at the end, attached to the board.
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897
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A tangled, extremely lengthy (16,000 words) spiritualistic mystery set in the Sonoma Valley of California, is "Planchette" (Cosmopolitan, August 1906).
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008
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Close to "Planchette" length is "Wonder of Women," published in two parts (Cosmopolitan, May-June, 1912), when one would have done nicely.
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As to the aforementioned "Planchette," this bloated 16,000-worder London submitted to Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Ainslee's, Frank Leslie's, Metropolitan, and Everybody's magazines before Cosmopolitan (June, 1906) kindly took it off his hands and payed $1,573 for it.
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"Planchette," written and published in 1906 at just over 16,000 words, is a 3,500-5,000-word story with a pituitary condition while "An Odyssey of the North" (1900), at 10,000 words, is perfection.
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My materials for the 'Planchette' article are really very extraordinary, ... but I don't want to write it now when I am driving so hard upon my book ....
Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896
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My materials for the 'Planchette' article are really very extraordinary, ... but I don't want to write it now when I am driving so hard upon my book ....
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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Very true: there are some persons who never can make such things work; who somehow always encounter "unfavourable conditions" when they wish to test the marvellous powers of a clairvoyant; who never can make "Planchette" move in conformity to the requirements of any known alphabet; who never see ghosts, and never have "presentiments," save such as are obviously due to association of ideas.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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