Ouija Essays

  • Ouija Boards

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    Ouija Boards For those of you that do not know what a ouija board is, it is a device used to supposedly ask questions of and receive answers from a seemingly supernatural force. Using a ouija board has become a controversial subject. Some people regard them as "evil" or a "tool of the Devil", yet they continue to be sold in stores along Scrabble and Monopoly as a game. The Ouija board was invented in the early 1890's by William Fuld. It is now sold by Parker Brothers. A ouija board is a small board

  • Wonders of the Ouija Board

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    Just because Ouija boards can open portals to other realms does not mean that they should be judged by it. The “talking board” really has a bad rap these days. When they first became popular back in the day, everyone wanted to play with one. Now if you even dare to speak of one, your mother would backhand you and ship you off to a private Catholic or Christian school. Here they would try ridding the demons that are trying to convince you to use the board so you can set them free to play in our world

  • Ouija Board Rules

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    Before I start writing my story I should explain the rules of a Ouija board. For those who don’t know what an Ouija board is it is something you can use to contact the dead. I have done lots of research on this topic and by research I mean watching people mess around with one…. Something you should never do. The rules are to 1. NEVER take your hands off of the Ouija Board. 2. NEVER play the Ouija board ALONE. 3. NEVER play in a graveyard or where anyone has been murdered. 4.IF it goes across the

  • The Wonders of the Ouija Board

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    The ideomotor phenomenon holds well-developed history and studies, uses similar to the Ouija board, and many professional sources behind it. Overall, the quantity and quality of proof to support the science behind the boards is extremely sturdy and provides interesting theories, studies, and history. The Ouija board is first publicized in the late 1800s, right in the midst of the spiritualist movement, when Ouija boards were just popular parlor games. The spiritualist movement was a time when personal

  • Communication with the Dead

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    Throughout the ages a plethora of cultures have proclaimed to believe in the ability to communicate with the dead. People claim to have done this through Ouija boards, dreams, nature, and some have even claimed that the dead can get our attention by moving an object, perhaps a token that relates to the deceased, in the physical world. Legitimate psychics, Ouija boards, and other strange phenomena help lead the case to convince that communication with the dead is possible. Arizona born Alison DuBois has helped

  • My Youth

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    My father having recently passed away, I was feeling nostalgic and found myself back in Livingston, haunting some of the old places of my youth: Becker's Farm; the National Little League baseball fields (we called it the sandpit); Northland Pool, and the adjacent water basin with the big painted rock titling rakishly at the far end of the field. The basin is now a soccer field, where I saw several coaches running young girls through various kicking drills. Some of the balls bounced into the concrete

  • Belief, Illusion and the Ouija: Contacting the Dead

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    contact the dead, but only spiritualists were able to. This changed in 1890 when the Ouija board was invented. An Ouija board is a board filled with letters, numbers, and a planchette. This invention changed everything by letting families contact the dead. Now, normal people could communicate with the

  • Spiritualism

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    “Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them.” ― Leanna Renee Hieber, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy According to Merriam-webster.com, Spiritualism is a “belief that spirits of the dead communicate with the living, usually through a medium”. However, Spiritualism is more than a belief. Ever since the Spiritualist movement began and

  • Sylvia Plath and the Occult Revival

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    the use of supernatural objects such as Ouija boards, tarot decks, and horoscopes. This gave way for more creative thoughts and could incorporate the supernatural for Plath not as a depiction of fantasy but what traversed through her mind in the natural world. Though not directly involved with the movement, Plath seems influenced by it, especially in her poem “Ouija,” which spoke of summoning a god of some sort. Living with Ted Hughes, Plath would use a Ouija board to ask questions such as the title

  • What Is Satanism?

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    access to that knowledge. The Ouija Board has proven particularly useful. The Ouija Board is an instrument for communication with the spirits of the dead. The Ouija Board is an open door into the world of the occult and demonic activity. Disembodied speak to the living through the medium of the Ouija Board. This information is believed to be truth from the other side; Lucifer's delusion to gain our allegiance. Most cases are with people who have used the Ouija Board. The Ouija Board is the easiest way

  • The Possession of Roland Doe

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    (another name that is also varied in different sources). Aunt Tillie was an eccentric woman who was very involved in the "spirit world" (Wildman). She introduced the Ouija board to Doe and they would use it together (Opsasnick) (Wildman). (“The Ouija board is used as a method of alleged communication with the spirit world. Ouija boards have their roots of spiritualism which started in the United States in the late 1840s. Mediums claimed to be intermediaries between the living and dead”) (McCarthy)

  • Shirley Jackson: The Embodiment of the Supernatural

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    The supernatural cannot be explained by logic nor reasoning, neither can it be studied by science, since the intangible force that controls the supernatural cannot be measured or controlled by the intellect. Shirley Jackson expressed “interest in superstition, and the supernatural” as a child; her interest in the occult led Jackson to become a practicing witch, Lenemaja Friedman Professor of English Literature confirms this in her book Shirley Jackson (Friedman 19). Jackson critics, felt that her

  • Creative Writing: Empire Island

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    Viviana had given her worked. Not even the rush of anger at the end produced any results. That’s it, she thought. I give up. Maybe not forever, but definitely for tonight. I’m exhausted. She went around and blew each of the black candles out. The Ouija Board she would just leave on the table until morning. No sense in cleaning up when her mind was so tired and she was emotionally drained. The sobbing from upstairs

  • The Belief of Reincarnation

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    Paranormal is defined as the denoting of events or phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Scientists, researchers, and analysts have and are still trying to find logical solutions for unnatural things occurring. Parapsychology is a subject that sparks the interests of people all over the world and accurate analysis of it is yet to be found. Parapsychological Association (2011) says, “Parapsychology is the scientific and scholarly study of three kinds of unusual events

  • Imagination In 'House Of Usher And House Taken Over'

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    Have you been through times when you could not go to sleep because of the horror movies that you have watched that day?Why do we start to get scared  after watching something that we know is fictional?Why we don't think logically? That's when Imagination takes over.An action of forming new ideas,images,or concepts of external objects that aren't  present to the senses is known as imagination.Though it is not harmful as many  psychologists believe. Imagination is important and good because it ignites

  • Haunted Bridges: An Exploration of Legends and Tragedies

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    that “made him do it” still haunt Hell’s Bridge.”Elias Friske butchered kids from the town village while adults were looking for missing children. “A college student was writing a paper on Emily's bridge and she wanted to find out more so she brunga ouija board and some friends and played it on the bridge the spirit said its name was Emily and that she was murdered by her step dad.”After Elias Friske went on a rampage he was murdered. He had killed all of the children in town and had threw their bodies

  • Are Ghosts Are Real?

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    You’re home alone, in the middle of the night, and you get out of bed because you assume you hear footsteps in your kitchen, you get out of the bed and go into the kitchen to see a shocking sight; a shadow walking into the other room. You think you have witnessed a ghost in your own home; however scientists would declare it was just a hallucination. Millions of people around the world believe in ghosts and haunted houses; however scientists believe that there are far more “reasonable” explanations

  • Spirits, Ghosts, and the Paranormal

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    For many years, people have debated whether or not spirits are real. Some people get scared at the fact that there might be something unknown lurking in their house in the middle of the night making their footsteps known to everyone in it. Maybe that person feels watched upon or feel some kind of presence in their home, or even sees shadows moving their way through rooms. Different people around the world have their own opinions based on religion and experiences when talking about angels, demons

  • The Ghost Of Bloody Mary

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    aranormal activity has been a cause of fear and excitement throughout history. The unknown attracts the curiosity from those who wonder whether the supernatural is real or a figment of the imagination. Ghosts are one of the supernatural beings whose existence is questioned every day. Many want to deny the existence of ghosts because they are terrified of other phantoms who may exist and ignore the evidence that has been brought forth throughout the years. However, ghosts are supernatural pheromones

  • Importance Of Imagination In 'Fall Of House Of Usher'

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    Invisible Have you been through times when you could not go to sleep because of the horror movies that you have watched that day?.Why do we start to get scared  after watching something that we know is fictional?.Why we don't think logically?. That's when Imagination takes over.An action of forming new ideas,images,or concepts of external objects that aren't  present to the senses is known as imagination.According to the article “importance of imagination” written Tao de haas highlights how good