Ouija Board: Communication With The Spirit World
From the risk of summoning demons to the commercial success of the board game, the Ouija board introduces the public to an intriguing method of communication with the spirit world. First, the Ouija board is made in the form of a small, flat, rectangular, and wooden board that has the alphabet and words, that would either directly answer the questions asked by those present or signal the end of their encounter, imprinted. The response choices previously mentioned include the following: yes, no, and goodbye. It must be remembered that to end a Ouija board session, the respectful gesture of saying a closing prayer to the spirit is highly advisable. By following these requisite motions, one has taken the necessary precautionary measures to prevent
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Unfortunately, the inability to identify some of the dead bodies meant that those respective families would be left without proper closure and burial. Soon, there was a rising concern for the spirits well being and the afterlife. In time, the invention of the planchette, with a pencil attached to it, allowed spirits to write their messages to the living. Since the pencil could not be lifted, the messages could be difficult to read. The planchette writing became vital in particular to those contacting the spiritual world and lost relatives from the war. As the planchette drifts across the Ouija board from one letter to another, the shock and fear that an individual must feel is exceptional. The impact of this likely unforeseen movement is monumental because it creates a connection between the living and the dead. Similarly, World War I brought forth rapid growth for the Ouija board in the form of print publications. For example, “as Ouija's popularity grew in the wake of World World I, newspaper coverage spread about Pearl Curran, a St. Louis housewife who used Ouija to talk with the spirit of a 17th-century woman named Patience Worth” (https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ouija.html). Soon, stories and other written work would become a catalyst to the increasing popularity of the Ouija board. However, skeptics quickly discredited Pearl Curran’s writings as fictitious work because no records of Patience Worth were ever
Unfortunately, the inability to identify some of the dead bodies meant that those respective families would be left without proper closure and burial. Soon, there was a rising concern for the spirits well being and the afterlife. In time, the invention of the planchette, with a pencil attached to it, allowed spirits to write their messages to the living. Since the pencil could not be lifted, the messages could be difficult to read. The planchette writing became vital in particular to those contacting the spiritual world and lost relatives from the war. As the planchette drifts across the Ouija board from one letter to another, the shock and fear that an individual must feel is exceptional. The impact of this likely unforeseen movement is monumental because it creates a connection between the living and the dead. Similarly, World War I brought forth rapid growth for the Ouija board in the form of print publications. For example, “as Ouija's popularity grew in the wake of World World I, newspaper coverage spread about Pearl Curran, a St. Louis housewife who used Ouija to talk with the spirit of a 17th-century woman named Patience Worth” (https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ouija.html). Soon, stories and other written work would become a catalyst to the increasing popularity of the Ouija board. However, skeptics quickly discredited Pearl Curran’s writings as fictitious work because no records of Patience Worth were ever