The Ouija board, or spirit board, is basically a flat board that contains a specific pattern of letters and numbers, that in theory, can be used to communicate with the dead. The spirit board is commonly tied to the occult but is also considered a toy by some as it is mass produced and sold by Hasbro. Many people wonder if the Ouija board is supernatural or if the phenomenon can be explained by science. Even today, the Ouija board remains a bit of a mystery.
The exact origins of spirit boards are not known however objects similar to the Ouija board can be dated back to Ancient China where they were commonly used to talk to the dead. It has even been claimed that Pythagoras used spirit boards to enhance his studies. Spirit boards are also connected to Ancient Rome where it is thought they were used by two people to predict the king’s successor.
Ouija boards were not commercially introduced until 1890, when they began to be regarded as parlor games that had no relation to the occult. It wasn’t until the time of World War I that a spiritualist by the name of Pearl Curran popularized the Ouija board as a tool of divination. Spiritualists believed that the deceased had ways of contacting the living, and supposedly used boards very similar to the modern Ouija to enable communication.
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