"Ouija The ouija ( ), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words ""yes"", ""no"", ""hello"" (occasionally), and ""goodbye"", along with various symbols and graphics. It uses a small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic called a planchette. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words. ""Ouija"" was formerly a trademark belonging to Parker Brothers, and has subsequently become a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States, but is often used generically"
"with an assistant who writes down or otherwise records their words. Spirit boards, also known as talking boards, or ouija boards (after a well-known brand name) are flat tablets, typically made of wood, Masonite, chipboard, or plastic. On the board are a number of symbols, pictures, letters, numbers and/or words. The board is accompanied by a planchette (French for ""little board""), which can take the form of a pointer on three legs or magnifying glass on legs; homemade boards may employ a shot glass as a planchette. A most basic Ouija board would contain simply the alphabet of whatever country"
"ghost causing Barbra Jean to scream and run up stairs. The electric then goes out and Barbra Jean screams once again. At the end of the episode Barbra Jean asked Reba if they should ask the board if Brock was being a good husband in Vegas and the planchette moved. Reba then jumped across the table into Barbra Jean's arms. The National Geographic show Brain Games Season 5 episode ""Paranormal"" clearly showed the board did not work when all participants were blindfolded. Ouija The ouija ( ), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board"
"when using Ouija boards. In a pastoral letter, The Dutch Reformed Churches encouraged its communicants to avoid Ouija boards, as it is a practice ""related to the occult"". The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod also forbids its faithful from using Ouija boards as it teaches that such would be a violation of the Ten Commandments. In 2001, Ouija boards were burned in Alamogordo, New Mexico, by fundamentalist groups alongside ""Harry Potter"" books as ""symbols of witchcraft."" Religious criticism has also expressed beliefs that the Ouija board reveals information which should only be in God's hands, and thus it is a tool"
"Businessman Elijah Bond had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed, much like the previously existing talking boards. The patentees filed on May 28, 1890 for patent protection and thus are credited with the invention of the Ouija board. Issue date on the patent was February 10, 1891. They received . Bond was an attorney and was an inventor of other objects in addition to this device. An employee of Elijah Bond, William Fuld, took over the talking board production. In 1901, Fuld started production of his own boards under the"
"to refer to any talking board. According to Hasbro, players take turns asking questions and then ""wait to see what the planchette spells out"" for them. It is recommended for players over the age of 8. Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on July 1, 1890, the ouija board was regarded as a parlor game unrelated to the occult until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I. Spiritualists claimed that the dead were able to contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a modern ouija"
"with her and brings the ceiling down on herself in a panic, Scott sees his Alice, and Alice, the final girl, sees her father. After Alice's father finishes his monologue, the film cuts back to Jock, Scott, Jazz, and Timmy on the Ouija board. They ask the board if there's a presence in the room with them; it answers Y. They ask its name; it answers Alice. They ask where it is; it repeats 'tower' over and over until they release the shot glass. Everyone but Scott goes upstairs to the tower while Scott reviews his hidden cameras. Scott sees"
"Yes and no Yes and no, or word pairs with a similar usage, are expressions of the affirmative and the negative, respectively, in several languages including English. Some languages make a distinction between answers to affirmative versus negative questions, thus they may have triplets or quadruplets of words instead. English originally used a four-form system up to and including Early Middle English but Modern English has reduced this to a two-form system consisting of just 'yes' and 'no'. It exists in many facets of communication, such as: eye blink communication, Morse Code, and sign language. Some languages do not answer"
"the paper. This technique has been used for experiments in extrasensory perception, lie detection, and ouija boards. This type of experiment was used by Kreskin and has also been used by illusionists such as Derren Brown. It is strongly associated with the practice of analytical hypnotherapy based on ""uncovering techniques"" such as Watkins' ""Affect Bridge"", whereby a subject's ""yes"", ""no"", ""I don't know"", or ""I don't want to answer"" responses to an operator's questions are indicated by physical movements rather than verbal signals; and are produced ""per medium"" of a pre-determined (between operator and subject) and pre-calibrated set of responses."
"creates his or her own reality, a foundational concept of the New Age movement first articulated in the ""Seth Material"". In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. Roberts and Butts claimed that they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality on December 2, 1963, who later identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and the board was"
"board at their camps in Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable faster communication with spirits. The Catholic Church and other Christian denominations have ""warned against using ouija boards"", holding that they can lead to demonic possession. Occultists, on the other hand, are divided on the issue, with some saying that it can be a positive transformation; others reiterate the warnings of many Christians and caution ""inexperienced users"" against it. Paranormal and supernatural beliefs associated with Ouija have been harshly criticized by the scientific community, since they are characterized as pseudoscience. The action of the board can be parsimoniously explained by"
"""Scareway to Heaven"" in which a Ouija board results in demon possession. ""The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain; or The Hymns of Melchizedek,"" an occult novel by Christopher of Detroit, contains several chapter that use the talking board for communication with the protagonist's higher self. ""The Uninvited,"" made in 1944, features a scene with an impromptu board the characters put together. The 1973 blockbuster film, ""The Exorcist"", also uses a ouija board to explain why the young girl becomes possessed. ""Alison's Birthday"" has one too, with its claustrophobia-inducing filming, as do the films ""Deadly Messages"" and ""Awakenings."" The earliest"
"do so will result in misfortune or death for the players. Similar Urban Legends: Ouija Board Children walking alone at night may encounter a woman wearing a surgical mask. This is not an unusual sight in Japan, as people wear them to protect others from their colds or sicknesses. The woman will stop the child and ask, ""Am I beautiful?"" If they say ""no"", she kills them with a pair of scissors she always carries. If they say ""yes"", the woman removes her mask to reveal her mouth has been slit from ear to ear. The Kuchisake-onna will then ask,"
"Adventure Series Book 1) by Shelby White centers on a group of friends who unintentionally release evil through their use of a Ouija board, as does ""The Harrowing"" by Alexandra Sokoloff. In ""For What It's Worth"" by Janet Tashjian a boy uses a Ouija board to contact the spirits of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. Issue #79 of ""Bart Simpson"", a comic book series based on The Simpsons, contains a story called ""The Demon"" in which Bart and Lisa find a Ouija board and unleash a demon. Issue #10 of ""Bart Simpson's Treehouse of horror"" contains the story"
""""", which also features the device. I Am Zozo follows a group of people that run afoul of a demon (based on Pazuzu) after using a Ouija board. In season 1 episode 5 of ""The West Wing"", the Ouija boards are mentioned by two characters who compare having a Ouija board to believing in UFOs. In Season 3 Episode 8 of the TV series ""Reba"", Barbra Jean and Reba use an Ouija Board to try and clean Barbra Jean and Brock's house after Reba convinced her that the house was haunted. While holding the séance Reba pretended to be a"
"her again was because the Ouija board subconsciously helped her regain her memory. But as Michael points out, this doesn't explain the messages that Cindy (whose body was found in the trunk of Mark's car in another town) received while using the board alone. The final scene shows the hotel owners discovering the Ouija board that Laura left behind. Just then, the power goes out due to a storm and they hear a noise. Startled, the man shouts out asking if anyone is there. The pointer then moves by itself to point at Yes. According to lead actress Kathleen Beller,"
"Stella (Lara Belmont) and Webster (Lukas Haas) deciding to go out and party. Also going to the party is Lucy (Marsha Thomason) (a friend of Stella), Spencer (James Hillier), Joe (Mel Raido) (a new housemate of the first three) and Annie (Melanie Gutteridge) (Liam's girlfriend). As the night progresses, they all try to find the biggest buzz they can, until Spencer suggests a ouija board, saying it is the weirdest buzz he's ever had. The partygoers agree and participate, all placing their right index fingers on an upside-down glass with the alphabet and the words 'Yes' and 'No' written in"
"with her. Strange things happen, and a presence smashes Pete's hand and face into a mirror. Later, the friends start finding the phrase ""hi friend"" (a message communicated during the Ouija board session) written in different places, like Isabelle's car window, a tunnel wall, Pete's desk, and Laine's computer. Thinking Deb is trying to communicate with them, the group has another Ouija session. They then discover that they are actually in contact not with Debbie but with a spirit calling itself ""DZ."" Laine sees the image of a little girl with her mouth sewn shut. The girl warns them to"
"William Fuld William Fuld (July 24, 1870–February 24, 1927) was an American businessman, inventor, and entrepreneur from Baltimore, Maryland who is best known for his marketing and manufacture of Ouija boards from the 1890s through the 1920s. Fuld is seen as the father of the Ouija board. Though Fuld never claimed to have invented the Ouija board, intense media coverage in the 1920s credited him with it. The misinformation was sustained by his own marketing, and his practice of stamping ""Original Ouija Board"" and ""Inventor"" on the back of his boards. By the end of his life he would have"
"""Ja"", and the affirmative answer to ""Snakker du ikke norsk?"" (""Do you not speak Norwegian?"") is ""Jo"", while the negative answer to ""both"" questions is ""Nei"". Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Hungarian, German, Dutch, and French all have three-form systems. Swedish and Danish have ""ja"", ""jo"", and ""nej"". Norwegian has ""ja"", ""jo""/""jau"", and ""nei"". Icelandic has ""já"", ""jú"" and ""nei"". Faroese has ""ja"", ""jú"" and ""nei"". Hungarian has ""igen"", ""de"", and ""nem"". German has ""ja"", ""doch"", and ""nein"". Dutch has ""ja"", ""jawel"", and ""nee"". French has ""oui"", ""si"", and ""non"". Swedish, and to some extent Danish and Norwegian, also has"
"The mark incorporated a swastika as its logo and the company which produced these boards was named ""The Swastika Novelty Company"". Bond died at age 74, and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland's Green Mount Cemetery, beneath a marker that resembles an Ouija board. Elijah Bond Elijah Jefferson Bond (January 23, 1847 in Bel Air, Maryland - April 14, 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American lawyer and inventor. Although he invented and patented items, including a steam boiler, he is best remembered for patenting what became known as the ouija board. He filed for a United States patent on May"
"prow of her boat and became one of the first to reach the shore. Patience Worth was later to indicate that she was eventually killed by the Indians. In 1916, in a book with a foreword written by Casper Yost, editor of the ""St. Louis Globe-Democrat"", Henry Holt and Company publicized Curran's claims that she had contacted the long dead Patience Worth. Curran claimed she began to anticipate what the Ouija board was going to spell and by 1919 the pointer would just move aimlessly about the board. Curran described pictorial visions which accompanied Patience's words. She said ""I am"
"in the story being told. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel ""Childhood's End"", aliens from a distant star visit and oversee the Earth, and human users of a Ouija board spell out the name of their star, from the New General Catalogue. See The Golden Age. In Stephen King's postapocalyptic novel ""The Stand"", Nadine Cross is contacted by Randall Flagg (also known as the dark man or Satan's Imp) twice via Ouija board. The first time is unintentionally, in college; the second time, in post-plague Boulder, she deliberately opens herself up to the communication, with dire consequences. ""The Ouija Board"" (Paranormal"
"being pushed out of a window and landing on a car. After the events, Jim and a normalized Linda resume their lives, marrying each other at a church. While cleaning, the home landlady named Mrs. Moses finds the wrecked board, and wonders if it still works. Shortly after the board and the planchette are thrown into a box, the planchette moves to the word ""yes"" by itself. Tenney was writing the script while a student at the University of Southern California. Inspired to write a horror film based on a Ouija board, he began to research the concept of ""progression"
"Western film to hinge its ""entire"" plot around the (mis)use of a Ouija board, ""Witchboard"" (1986), makes a nod to ""The Exorcist"" (where there is a sequence in which a board is used), with a main character called Linda, and her partner quipping ""So what you're telling me is ... that I'm living with Linda Blair?"" ""Witchboard"" was so successful it spawned two sequels: """", and """". In the same year as the first of the trilogy, the film ""Spookies"" also had its own Ouija board scene. ""What Lies Beneath"" (2000) also includes a séance scene with a board. ""Paranormal"
"of Satan. A spokesperson for Human Life International described the boards as a portal to talk to spirits and called for Hasbro to be prohibited from marketing them. Ouija boards have been the source of inspiration for literary works, used as guidance in writing or as a form of channeling literary works. As a result of Ouija boards' becoming popular in the early 20th century, by the 1920s many ""psychic"" books were written of varying quality often initiated by ouija board use. Aleister Crowley had great admiration for the use of the ouija board and it played a passing role"
"name ""Ouija"". Charles Kennard (founder of Kennard Novelty Company which manufactured Fuld's talking boards and where Fuld had worked as a varnisher) claimed he learned the name ""Ouija"" from using the board and that it was an ancient Egyptian word meaning ""good luck."" When Fuld took over production of the boards, he popularized the more widely accepted etymology: that the name came from a combination of the French and German words for ""yes"". The Fuld name became synonymous with the Ouija board, as Fuld reinvented its history, claiming that he himself had invented it. The strange talk about the boards"
"critics. A prequel, "","" was released in 2016. Debbie Galardi recalls playing Ouija with her best friend Laine Morris as children. In present day, Debbie throws her Ouija board into the fire, burning it. Debbie implies to Laine that something strange happened with the Ouija board. After Laine leaves, the Ouija board reappears in Debbie's bedroom. Debbie becomes possessed and hangs herself with Christmas lights inside her home. Laine attends Debbie's wake with her boyfriend Trevor, younger sister Sarah, friend Isabelle, and Debbie's boyfriend Pete. The five friends meet at Debbie's house and use her Ouija board to try communicating"
"but only after she composed and recited the affirmative prayer, ""I am the living witness: The dead live: And they speak through us and to us: And I am the voice that gives this glorious truth to the suffering world: I am ready, God: I am ready, Christ: I am ready, Robert"" was she able to contact him by means of a Ouija board, an event she described in her 1918 autobiography, ""The Worlds and I."" Affirmative prayer is used by practitioners of African American hoodoo, usually in conjunction with its opposite, which is called a ""prayer of removal"". In"
"Activity"" (2007) involves a violent entity haunting a couple that becomes more powerful when the Ouija board is used. Another 2007 film, ""Ouija"", depicted a group of adolescents whose use of the board causes a murderous spirit to follow them, while four years later, ""The Ouija Experiment"" portrayed a group of friends whose use of the board opens, and fails to close, a portal between the worlds of the living and the dead. The 2014 film ""Ouija"" featured a group of friends whose use of the board prompted a series of deaths. That film was followed by a 2016 prequel,"
"two entries with the game's name, one describes it as a ""folk game"", and the other one describes a ""scout"" variant. Both entries cite Katalin Lázár's ethnographical work ""Népi Játékgyűjtemény"" (""Folk Game Collection""). The ""scout"" variant's collection date is given as 1957. Yes, no, black, white Yes, no, black, white (alternatively spelled as yes, no, black or white; yes, no, black and white; yes-no, black-white; or yes/no, black/white) is a simple verbal game for two or more players. It can also be considered as a party game and a car game. It has very few and simple rules, requires no"
"Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge, also known as Ouija Challenge: The Charlie Charlie Game in the United Kingdom, is the DVD re-titled release of 2016 American horror film ""Charlie, Charlie"" directed by Derek Presley. It is an unofficial sequel to ""Ouija"" and """" made by Blumhouse Productions. This film is completely unrelated and doesn't even feature a Ouija board in the plot but instead the Charlie Charlie challenge paper and pencil game. DVD distributor Cinedigm would release another unrelated horror film re-titled as ""Ouija 4"" in 2018. A haunted house owner invites some"
"to questions) are often expressed using particles or words such as ""yes"" and ""no"", where ""yes"" is the affirmative and ""no"" the negative particle. Special affirmative and negative words (particles) are often found in responses to questions, and sometimes to other assertions by way of agreement or disagreement. In English, these are ""yes"" and ""no"" respectively, in French ""oui"", ""si"" and ""non"", in Swedish ""ja"", ""jo"" and ""nej"", and so on. Not all languages make such common use of particles of this type; in some (such as Welsh) it is more common to repeat the verb or another part of"