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Ed Ouija

The Victorians loved them, it was a favourite pastime of theirs to generally try and contact the dead, see ghosts, and get up to all manner of spooky stuff. Nowadays we just send each other memes. Funny old world.
 
The spiritual world is fascinating..........

Alot of spirits need help.... If they have unfinished business for example..........
 
Dude111 said:
The spiritual world is fascinating..........

Alot of spirits need help.... If they have unfinished business for example..........
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It was the people who needed the help, IMO.

People were looking for something beyond the stark, quite brutal reality of the times. Likewise, there were people then, as there are now, that were keen to capitalize on those needs and give the people what they want.

The Victorians were a rather gruesome lot, when it came to entertainment, but that was bugger-all in comparison to the way people were forced to live at the time, and it took some drastic events (the Whitechapel murders, being one such series of events) to make the people who were better off realize the relative squalor that most people were living in.

That so many bizarre pastimes, stories, and ways of looking at things came out of that particular era is not surprising in the least.
 
I think it was Michael Faraday who proved that the users were pushing the planchette by making a replacement planchette out of a stack of card, cut to shape and loosely sewn together so there was a little play in the thread.

Simplicity is often the mark of true genius.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
I think it was Michael Faraday who proved that the users were pushing the planchette by making a replacement planchette out of a stack of card, cut to shape and loosely sewn together so there was a little play in the thread.

Simplicity is often the mark of true genius.
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No doubt at all, at least for me, that it is the participant/s moving the glass or pointer, or whatever.

What is fascinating is the unexpected answers you get from fairly straight forward questions, and how the effect seems to have a need to correct mistakes. I am sure that this derives from inside the heads of one or more of the participants, but how it expresses itself from allegedly subconscious random movement, into intelligible results through the often clumsy vehicle of a glass, is quite curious.
 
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My family had a ouija board when I was a kid. (Also, for that matter, a magic 8 ball). My mother, sister, and I sat down for a session with it. Sister asked, "what should I buy tomorrow?"
Slowly, the planchet spelled out --- "save your money." Sister and I just looked at our thrifty Scottish mother, who grew up during the depression.
 
Carlotta said:
My family had a ouija board when I was a kid. (Also, for that matter, a magic 8 ball). My mother, sister, and I sat down for a session with it. Sister asked, "what should I buy tomorrow?"
Slowly, the planchet spelled out --- "save your money." Sister and I just looked at our thrifty Scottish mother, who grew up during the depression.
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Great anecdote, funny, illuminating and on topic. Nominated!
 
Carlotta said:
My family had a ouija board when I was a kid. (Also, for that matter, a magic 8 ball). My mother, sister, and I sat down for a session with it. Sister asked, "what should I buy tomorrow?"
Slowly, the planchet spelled out --- "save your money." Sister and I just looked at our thrifty Scottish mother, who grew up during the depression.
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Back in my day the planchet usually spelled out, "Kiss Senex." "Give Senex what he wants."

The planchet used to be wise.
 
We had one it would only spell out N I G H T and F E V E R

Turns out it was a Beegee board.
 
One time Issac Hayes and I asked a Ouija board, "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks?"

And it spelled out "SHAFT"!

So we said, "Damn Right!"

;)
 
Wouldn't a Chinese Ouija board have to be the size of a conference table?
 
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