Supposedly named for the French and German words for yes - Just say NO to the Ouija Board. Although automatic writing using a planchette to contact the dead has been recorded since 1100 CE in China, it was later outlawed there. In the late nineteenth Century it became extremely popular as a toy... Following its introduction to the mass market by businessman Elijah Bond in 1890, the Ouija board was generally regarded as being merely a harmless parlor game unrelated to the occult until American Spiritualists popularized its use as a tool to contact dead relatives during World War I, but it has earned a deservedly more sinister reputation since for leading some users to fear, madness, demonic possession, and even death......
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:53:59 +0000
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