Bond was an attorney and was an inventor of other objects in addition to this device.Īn employee of Elijah Bond, William Fuld, took over the talking board production. Issue date on the patent was 10 February 1891. Bond filed on for patent protection and thus is credited with the invention of the Ouija board. Commercial parlor game īusinessman 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 ouija itself was created and named in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1890, but the use of talking boards was so common by 1886 that news reported the phenomenon taking over the spiritualists' camps in Ohio. Following the American Civil War in the United States, mediums did significant business in allegedly allowing survivors to contact lost relatives.
Talking boards Īs a part of the spiritualist movement, mediums began to employ various means for communication with the dead. The use of planchette writing as an ostensible means of necromancy and communion with the spirit-world continued, and, albeit under special rituals and supervisions, was a central practice of the Quanzhen School, until it was forbidden by the Qing Dynasty. The method was known as fuji "planchette writing". One of the first mentions of the automatic writing method used in the ouija board is found in China around 1100 AD, in historical documents of the Song Dynasty. Wang Chongyang, founder of the Quanzhen School, depicted in Changchun Temple, Wuhan Occultists, on the other hand, are divided on the issue, with some saying that it can be a tool for positive transformation others reiterated the warnings of many Christians and caution "inexperienced users" against it. Mainstream Christian denominations, including Catholicism, have "warned against using Ouija boards", holding that they can lead to demonic possession. The action of the board can be most easily explained by unconscious movements of those controlling the pointer, a psychophysiological phenomenon known as the ideomotor effect. Paranormal and supernatural beliefs associated with Ouija have been criticized by the scientific community and are characterized as pseudoscience. Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on 1 July 1890, the Ouija board was regarded as an innocent parlor game unrelated to the occult until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I. state of Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable faster communication with spirits. Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a modern Ouija board at their camps in the U.S.
"Ouija" is a trademark of Hasbro, but is often used generically to refer to any talking board. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words. It uses a planchette (small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic) as a movable indicator to spell out messages during a séance. The ouija ( / ˈ w iː dʒ ə/ WEE-jə, /- dʒ i/ jee), 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", occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics.
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