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Quote of the Day: ‘I Use My Ouija Board as a Chopping Block to Make Soul Food’
When asked in 1914 whether he would be re-elected, President Woodrow Wilson said, “The Ouija Board says ‘Yes.'”
There has been debate through the years about whether the Ouija Board is a harmless childhood diversion or a manifestation of evil.
The “talking boards” first became popular after the Civil War, used by spiritualists to contact the dead. The name “Ouija” was supposedly the name of a ghost spelled out to a practitioner of seances. The Hasbro toy company took the copyright on the name, but it’s used generically these days for such occult practices. The Ouija Board has been a much-used motif in urban legends centered on the supernatural. The Ouija Board is part of the plot of The Exorcist, Regan’s first contact with evil spiritual forces. The Ouija Board has widely been criticized and condemned by Christian churches (Catholic and Protestant.)