On other occasions adults, unable to deal with the departure of a loved one, use the game in hopes of communicating with a deceased relative.
While someone using the board may not have the intention of calling a demonic spirit, the act of using the Ouija board is a form of divination (discovering hidden knowledge through supernatural means) and is very real.
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Origin... NO
Communication tool of satan to influence and enter people... ABSOLUTELY
I have cleaned up many messes over the years for teenagers using ouija boards.
Nasty mess = dark spirits attaching to board users.
Hahahahaha! Milton Bradley made a nice profit off pieces of particle board and a piece of plastic. A 156 years in business and not one haunted factory. Yeah, those poor spirits must wait around until someone pulls out the Ouija board before making themselves present.
I’m 64 and not real spiritual, but I believe these things are connected directly to another realm, specifically to their evil dept.
I have banned them from my homes and presence for the last 45+ years.
When I was an older teenager I played Ouija board sometimes with friends; not a whole lot or obsessively. Usually just meaningless letters.
Once when we played, right away the message appeared:
God is love.
I figured that was all I needed to hear, and never played again.
Interestingly, the letters just formed right away. Other person was just as surprised as I was.
No.
Harvard is.
As much as any other board game stamped "Parker Brothers"
I suppose it's only a matter of time before Monopoly is branded an origin of evil capitalism. Or Risk is called an origin of evil imperialism.
Origin? No. Portal? Definitely.
YES!
Whether an Ouija board works or not, whether or not it is communication with the dead, whether or not it is communication with evil spirits, or even if it is just a toy, Christians should avoid it because it is a supposed tool of divination. God forbids divination in all its forms, so we should obey. My kids never had one nor will my grandchildren.
What does the product description on the box or the instructions say about how it is supposed to work? I have never read what the company who makes it actually says about it. Do they say it is spirits or supernatural forces or what?
I mean I guess all you need is a sliding marker and an alphabet and number set to do the same thing without paying out for some lame supposed prognostication tool. I guess my point is do most folks use the ‘official’ tool or save their bread and make a homemade one if that’s what they want to do?
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My aunt during WW II used one to find out what her husband was doing in Europe and where he was stationed. She wrote the answers down and when he got home it was quite accurate. I think her and her sisters actually made the board and put a glass on a plate of glass that had been dampened.
On the flip side, before I got married my girlfriend at the time and friends held a seance. It was all fun and games, as this Gf was supposed to be writing down the communications. Long story short, she started talking in a “weird” manner, when someone asked her to write it down, she grunted and bent a bic pen in half without breaking it. Everyone was scared and avoided her for days.
There are things we don’t understand out there, and DON’T mess around with spirits..
Always use a faraday cage when using one, unless you want to get posessed...
As I understand it, the official records have never been released, and cannot be without the consent of the subject. Blatty apparently saw some brief notes written up by an attending priest (sometimes referred to as the "diary") and spoke to a couple of people involved in the case. Most of the story, he simply made up. (He was an English major at Georgetown at the time of the case, and hoped to make a career as a creative writer/novelist/whatever. He read about the case in the newspaper and saw a story idea.) The really lurid stuff in the book and the movie is pure fiction. Independently of Blatty, there is also gossip and hearsay from people who were around at the time. The case is still part of neighborhood lore; people who grew up in Cottage City, Mount Ranier, and Bladensburg -- and I've met several -- know about it from local legend (which is now commingled with movie lore in local "memory"). But the official medical and canonical records, whatever they may have been, have not been opened.
This intrigues me because this case occurred in the DC area. We are not dealing here with Father O'Gullible in the back of beyond improvising in something way above his pay grade. Catholic University, with its collection of assorted seminaries, was less than two miles away. It would strike me as extraordinary for such a case to happen in CU's backyard and for no one to drive over to evaluate it. (Or more likely, to be called in to consult.) The first exorcism was attempted at Georgetown University Hospital, so the medical and psychiatric staff as well as the exorcists would have had a look at the patient as well. The GU exorcism failed, so the mother took the kid to St. Louis, where a second, prolonged exorcism ultimately succeeded. Since the Catholic Church has a protocol for authorizing exorcisms, this means that a second set of eyes in a different diocese and reporting to a different bishop also signed off.
The professional skeptics will argue that (1) mentally ill people often produce quite dramatic symptoms, with no supernatural causes, that can fool unwary observers and that (2) some patients deliberately trick observers, and that some of them are very, very clever in how they do so. I am sure that both these things are true. In this case, however, the patient was a 12 year old boy when the symptoms began. He was 13 at the time of the second exorcism. He was in the backyard of Catholic Central; he was seen by the staff of a well-regarded teaching hospital; and he was evaluated independently by an independent team in St. Louis. The Catholics may have been much more casual about exorcisms then than now, or perhaps they were just careless in this case. But this would seem to be a case where the official records would be worth a good look, if they still exist.
As an aside, the boy's family was Lutheran, not Catholic. The dad apparently never believed he was possessed; it was the (perhaps hysterical) mother who was convinced. He had been expelled from Bladensburg Jr. High for bad behavior; I've never seen any investigation of what the teachers, principal, and school district officials may have thought. The family consulted first with their doctor, who was stumped, and their Lutheran pastor, who was stumped. The Lutheran pastor referred them to the priest at the neighborhood Catholic Church on the theory that the Catholics were the experts on exorcism. That's a referral I'd like to know more about as well; one would think a Lutheran pastor would call in a Lutheran consultant first, before defaulting to the papists down the street.
Since you're wondering, the famous Georgetown steps had nothing to do with the case. Blatty threw them in as an atmospheric touch to an entirely fictional murder. No one died in the real case.
They are pieces of wood no more good nor evil than any other including any shaped into a pagan idol. Like an idol they were crafted to facilitate an unhealthy practice. The origin of evil is spiritual pride, not wood, nor rock, nor metal.
James Merrill won a Pulitzer prize in the 1970s for poems he said were dictated to him through the Ouija board.
Talk about ghost writer.