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Hi All,
I wonder how many of you know what an Ouija board is and what it looks like without googling it.
Would you let me know, please?
Thanks.
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One of the greatest examples of 'confirmation bias' on the planet.
This is a link to images of them, and they are not round. so what i am saying is, what people think of may well be what they've seen on TV rather than the real thing.
It came in a box a bit like Monopoly, a rectangular board with all the letters and Yes/No (possibly also maybe!) with instructions and a triangular thing with a hole in the middle to read the letters through.
We used to play with it quite often, asking it questions about boys we fancied and the like.
Never bothered me till I was a bit older and realised that there were no instructions for sending the spirits away once we had roused them!
It really was unrelated to the Occult at first. That was brought in. So yes, it was a board game.
Just read this too.
Depending on how it is used in the story, then little bits of the action will maybe give a good idea anyway if anyone is unsure.
Or unless there is something particular about it - 'the board was well worn, the letters barely visible after years of use and scuff marks where the spirits had pushed the glass a little too hard' or something.
It's interesting isn't it, it's all perception. People think it's going to be voices of the dead, it will be.
:-O
the one we played with was i'm pretty sure by Waddington's and it wasn't very scary in look.
Might struggle to take it seriously...but then I am usually wrong about most things
http://www.mowlearning.org.uk/p/blog-page_1963.html