A Ouija is a flat, wooden surface which
has letters from A to Z, numbers from 0 to 9 and a Sun and Moon symbol.
A movable indicator or a "planchette" is used to supposedly answer questions that its players ask. In popular culture these boards are considered to be a spiritual gateway
used to contact the dead; however, the only evidence for this is the
various accounts of users, which have not been scientifically proved.
The
Ouija Board is a device used to contact spirits. It consist of a flat
board with the letters of the alphabet and the numbers 0 through 9
printed on it. In the top left corner of the board the word YES is
printed, in the right corner the word NO. The other part to the game is
the spade shaped planchette. The planchette has three legs with small
pieces of felt on the bottom of each one and a round clear space called
the eye.
"It has
always been mysterious. It has always been mystifying. Sit opposite your
partner and rest your fingers lightly on the planchette. Now ask your
question. Concentrate very hard and watch as the answer is revealed in
the message window. Will it tell you YES or NO? Will it give you a
number or spell out the answer? Ask any question you want. Ouija will
answer. Its only a game ...isn't it?
Ouija boards have their roots in Spiritualism, which began in the
United States in the late 1840s. (Claims that ancient Ouija boards
existed are UNFOUNDED) The new movement was led by mediums, who claimed to be intermediaries between the living and the dead.There were a number of ways mediums made followers believe that they were communicating messages from those who had passed. One, table turning, involved the table moving or knocking on the floor in response to letters called out from the alphabet. Another method used planchettes, heart-shaped devices with two wheels at one end and a pencil at the point; users would place their fingers on the device, which would then be guided by spirits who would “write” messages.
Both methods were problematic. Table turning took too long, and planchette writing was hard to decipher. According to theMUSEUM OF TALKING BOARDS some mediums got rid of these methods altogether, preferring to channel while in a trance, while others built COMPLICATED TABLES N DIALS.and tables painted with letters that required people toUse a planchette as a pinter. This method became the most popular—and paved the way for the Ouija board.Ouija messages obviously come from forces beyond our control. You contact or "channel" these entities through the board. They are discarnate spirits, ghosts, or other ethereal beings who have a purpose for contacting the living. Many advocates of the Spiritualist Theory think that there is no harm in contacting the other realm because most spirits are basically benign and have important information to share. A few of these same advocates will perform elaborate cleansing rituals before using the board, just in case they run into a stinker. Other Spiritualist Theory supporters believe that no one should ever use the Ouija board. Malevolent forces can masquerade as good and cause emotional damage, even death to the user of the board. They offer as proof the many accounts of spirit possession reported by "experts" on the occult and demonology.
Ouija Boards were all the rage in the 1920s. They're still fun now!
Never use the Ouija Board when you are in an ill or weakened condition. This can lead to all kinds of trouble and makes the person more vulnerable to possession,
Since
there is no way of truly knowing if a spirit is good or evil it is
important to keep in mind that the spirits will often use false flattery
and lies to gain your confidence. Be careful.
-Always be respectful to the spirits.
-Sometimes
an evil spirit will permanently inhabit a board. When this happens no
other spirits will be able to communicate though that Ouija Board.
-Beware
... if the planchette begins to count down through the letter of the
alphabet or the numbers the spirit can escape form the board.
-If the planchette moves to the four corners of the board an evil spirit has been contacted.
The most important things to remember are to set up protections for
yourself prior to the session (you should also announce when starting
the session that no negative energies are welcome), and at the end of
your session, be sure you verbally announce to any spirits that may have
come through that they return to where they came from, and then after a
moment, set the pointer to "Goodbye" (or "farewell" or whatever version
of goodbye is on your board) to "close the door" behind them.
Otherwise you could trap some spirits here in the physical world, which
might upset them and they could cause problems in your home.
Never
use the Ouija in a graveyard or a place where a terrible death has
occurred. Playing in these places might cause terrible manifestations.
-Witch Boards are named such because witches once used them to summon demons.
-Avoid playing the Ouija Board alone. This increases your chances of becoming possessed by a spirit or demon.
-Ouija Boards that are not properly disposed of will return to haunt the owner.
If you Burn the Ouija Board it will scream.
-If you place a silver coin on the board,It is said that no evil spirits can come through.
-Never leave the planchette on the board when you are not using it.
-To properly dispose of the Ouija Board break it into seven pieces,pour holy water on it and bury it.
Maybe all this is just Ouija folklore passed down something like an urban legend but it's your choice to believe it or not...
-Ouija Boards that are not properly disposed of will rerurn to haunt the owner.
-If you Burn the Ouija Board it will sream.
-If you place a silver coin on the board,It is said that no evil spirits can come through.
-Never leave the planchette on the board when you are not using it.
-To properly dispose of the Ouija Board break it into seven peices,pour holy water on it and bury it.
Maybe all this is just Ouija folklore passed down something like an urban ledgend but it's your choice to belive it or not..
Users subconsciously direct the path of the triangle to produce a word that is in that person's subconscious thought process. This subconscious behavior is known as ideomotor action, a term coined by William Carpenter in 1882. It is also known as automatism. Some people may be convinced the "powers" of the ouija board are real because they are unaware that they are in fact moving the piece and therefore assume that the piece must be moving due to some other "spiritual force". The subconscious thought process may produce an answer that is different from what the user expected in their conscious thought process—thus perpetuating the idea that the board has "mystical powers". Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode on Ouija Boards, ran an experiment using unbiased participants. Questions were being asked to the late William Frawley with very strong answers. The participants were then blindfolded and the board was turned 180 degrees without their knowledge. With continued questioning, the planchette then traveled to bare areas of the board where the participants believed the "Yes" and "No" marks were located. The clinical term is "ideomotor response." You may not know that you are moving the message indicator, but you are. This is similar to automatic writing, also know as automatism, a well-understood phenomenon. Mediums in years past, would hold a pencil in one hand and pay no attention as it wrote furiously. Some believed that these written messages came from the spirits. Others felt that the messages came from a clever medium. At any rate, most proponents of the Automatism Theory generally accept that it is very possible to move the planchette unconsciously. They claim that the Ouija board opens a kind of shortcut from the conscious to the subconscious mind. Collective automatism occurs when more than one person is operating the board.
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