000252 8 Aneel SMIGLOSSARY 1 board: tablero 2 flat: plano 3 device: artefacto 4 tospell out: deletrear belief: creencia the dead: los muertos the living: ios vivos clairvoyance: clarividencia sift of tongues: don de lenguas as well as: asi como nevertheless: sin embargo to claim: afirmar host: fantasma 14 as: dado que GE FB © on SPEAKING TO THE DEAD THE OUIJA Inventado en 1891, este sencillo y esotérico objeto se ha usado como herramienta para comunicarse con el mas alla, como juego de mesa ¢ incluso como método para investigar el inconsciente. he Ouija boards is a flat board marked with the letters of the al- phabet, the numbers 0 to 9, the words yes, no’and good bye’ alongwith various symbolsandagraphics. Ituses the movements of people’shandsonasmal device to spell outa message SPIRITUALISM The Ouija board developed out of Spirit: ualism, a religious movement that be- me very popular in mid 19th century America. Itwas based on thebelief® that the spirits of the dead® communicate with the living”. Other phenomena re lated to the movernent were prophecy, clairvoyance®, gift of tongues®, visions, trance, aswellas*® autoraticwritingon which the Ouija board was based. This, was, of course, a slow process as the ghost hadto spell outa message letter by letter. Nevertheless*, in 1917, two mediums, Emily Grant Hutchings and Lola Hays, claimed* that the ghost®3 of he Mark Twain had dictated an entire book to them, Jap Herron, via the Ouija board. AGAME By the 1920s, Spiritualism’s popularity had fallen as*4 many frauds*5 were re- vealed. Then, the Ouija board was sold asa family game with no connections to theoccult, However, the Catholic Church had become alarmed at the potential of the board for evil®®. In 1901 Pope Pius X had commissioned a psychic investiga: torcalled J. Godfrey Raupert to warn'? Catholics about it. In his book, The New Black Magic and the Truth*® About the Ouija Board, Raupertwarned: ‘Theboard should not be tolerated in any Christian household or placedwithinthereach?° }e young. NOTORIETY This, of course, proved** to encourage the young in particular, and the Ouija board was widely? usedoncollegecam:GLOSSARY at 15 frauds: fraudes 16 evit el mal 7 towarn: alertar 418 truth: verdad 19 household: hogar 20. within the reach: atalcance 2 to prove: demostrarse 22 widely: ampliamente 23 to peak: alcanzar 24 to outsold: superar en ventas 25 tocement: consolidarse 26 allegedly: presuntamente 27 issues: asuntos 28 to address: abordar 29 to deal: tratar 30 to stick to: atenerse a 31 tolack:fattar 32 ideomotor response: efecto ideomotor uses. Sales peaked? in the1960s when the Ouija board outsold## Monopoly. In 1971, William Peter Blatty’s novel The Ex- id its filmadaptation cemented? its sinister status. Blatty based his story onarreal-life case of analleg sessed boy who had been ir the Ouija board by an aunt ly? pos- oduced to Goop BYE Ouija boards are stiused today ssues*” addressed onthe social iasite Reddit include'Howto : wigs RSet deal?® with spirits with abasiclev- (pegs English stickto® yes or no’ or wWhat to do about distracted spirits who lacks the patience or clarity tospellout along message Ouijaboardsare equialty ofinterest ina more scientific sense as an ex- left: a Qua board in erciseinwhatiscalled theideomo- tor response’, revealing how the mind eas ‘makes unconscious decisions that have pasta rear soeersarh physical consequences, es pig, Germany 15