Ouija Board, contacting spirits, if you have tell me what happened or any stories.
2007-03-03 13:25:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
This happened to my mom:
When she was a teen, her dad and her brothers and sister did the Ouija board and it said there were ghosts in her house, so my mom went up to her room to work on her homework, and then she saw a face in the lampshade, and it started out nice and happy, and then it turned really evil and angry, and later she found out that a man had died in her bathroom!
2007-03-03 13:59:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's not a person's imagination.
The movement of the planchette is not due to paranormal forces but to unnoticeable movements by those controlling the pointer, known as the ideomotor effect. The same kind of unnoticeable movement is at work in dowsing.
The Ouija board was first introduced to the American public in 1890 as a parlor game sold in novelty shops.
E.C. Reiche, Elijah Bond, and Charles Kennard ... created an all new alphanumeric design. They spread the letters of the alphabet in twin arcs across the middle of the board. Below the letters were the numbers one to ten. In the corners were "YES" and "NO."
Kennard called the new board Ouija (pronounced 'wE-ja) after the Egyptian word for good luck. Ouija is not really Egyptian for good luck, but since the board reportedly told him it was during a session, the name stuck.*
Kennard lost his company and it was taken over by his former foreman, William Fuld, in 1892.
One of William Fuld's first public relations gimmicks, as master of his new company, was to reinvent the history of the Ouija board. He said that he himself had invented the board and that the name Ouija was a fusion of the French word "oui" for yes, and the German "ja" for yes.*
Although Ouija boards are usually sold in the novelty or game section of stores, many people swear that there is something occult about them. For example, Susy Smith in Confessions of a Psychic (1971) claims that using a Ouija board caused her to become mentally disturbed. In Thirty Years Among the Dead (1924), American psychiatrist Dr. Carl Wickland claims that using the Ouija board "resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated." Is this what happens when amateurs try to dabble in the occult? Maybe, if they are suggestible, not very skeptical and a bit disturbed to begin with. However, even very intelligent people who have not gone insane are impressed by Ouija board sessions. They find it difficult to explain the "communication" as the ideomotor effect reflecting unconscious thoughts. One reason they find such an explanation difficult to accept is that the "communications" are sometimes very vile and unpleasant. It is more psychologically pleasing to attribute vile pronouncements to evil spirits than to admit that one among you is harboring vile thoughts. Also, some of the "communications" express fears rather than wishes, such as the fear of death, and such notions can have a very visible and significant effect on some people.
Observing powerful messages and the powerful effect of messages on impressionable people can be impressive. Yet, as experiences with facilitated communication have shown, decent people often harbor indecent thoughts of which they are unaware. And the fact that a person takes a "communication" seriously enough to have it significantly interfere with the enjoyment of life might be a sufficient reason for avoiding the Ouija board as being more than a "harmless bit of entertainment," but it is hardly a sufficient reason for concluding that the messages issue from anything but our own minds.
2007-03-04 00:39:57 · answer #2 · answered by Janine M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing happens because of spirits. They are fake and I know TONS about magic.
2007-03-03 21:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by HachiKun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It IS a toy. It's made by a toy company, isn't it? I've been "playing" with them for years-- still have one. They do nothing on their own, it's the person's wild imagination that runs away with them that does the "weird stuff".
2007-03-03 22:38:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I played it, but nothing happened, sad.
2007-03-03 21:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by Marshall 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES IT REALLY MOVED AND THE CANDLE flame we had lit went way up in the air it scared us.
2007-03-04 00:36:06 · answer #6 · answered by deedee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep.Nothing.
2007-03-03 21:28:12 · answer #7 · answered by crow lover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not a toy.
If you choose to go there use discernment.
2007-03-03 22:16:36 · answer #8 · answered by lightwriter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I haven't, but i seen it on Supernatural!
2007-03-03 21:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by Charlotte A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont do it. thats all i have to say
2007-03-03 22:09:07 · answer #10 · answered by thepainter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋