ouija

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Almost every night our angel friends communicated with us unmistakably through the ouija, and planchette; they would draw caricature pictures of us all, and give us conundrums and jokes that we had never known before.

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  1. A form of planchette, consisting of a board marked with the letters of the alphabet and the ten numerals, and of the planchette proper, which (under the hand of the operator) moves over the board and touches certain letters and numerals and thus ‘answers’ questions. The next higher grade of motor automatism, involving considerable subconscious action of intelligence, is found in the various alphabet-using forms of amateur medium-ship, such as table tipping, the ‘Ouija-board,’ and certain other devices for making our muscles leaky and liable to escape from control. Pop. Sci. Mo., Jan., 1904, p. 195.

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  • Firstly there is the case of natural earth bound entities and secondly there are the cases of invited entities, what I mean by invited is that if you play around with say a ouija board or dark magic in any way then you are inviting trouble into your home. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Cheating -- by using insider knowldge, in-depth simulations, latent psychic powers, reasoned analysis, alcohol, ouija boards, etc -- is strictly encouraged. —  coffee.geek.nz - Comments
  • Kyrie Eleison through the darkness of the ni-iiiight! ouija board made from trees: Say what? blue how soon is now t-shirt: I'd love one, thanks. whatever, Amy Guth it's 7: 51 AM —  bigmouth indeed strikes again
  • Here is Morrissey's London, giddy London, with its hairdressers on fire, ouija boards, and interesting drugs. —  A Special Way of Being Afraid
  • Three of Danny's closest friends were chatting with his his widowed wife about Danny's colorful life when it was mentioned that he used to indulge in contacting the spirits, often via ouija board, and so, enlightened by the memory, Danny's widow lit a candle, the room fell to an eerie gloom and an ouija board -- a fine specimen that belonged to the woman's daughter -- was fetched from upstairs. —  LAist
 

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  1. Formed as a trade-mark name, from French oui, yes, + German ja, yes. The name thus implies ‘a thing that will answer yes in any language’—a good description of a well-managed plan-chette.
 

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