#ouija — Public Fediverse posts
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:stargif: 𝑳𝒂 𝑶𝒖𝒊𝒋𝒂: 𝒅𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒆𝒈𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒐́𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒂 :stargif:
La historia de la tabla Ouija no empieza con espíritus ni posesiones, sino con algo mucho más terrenal: el negocio.
A finales del siglo XIX, en plena fiebre del espiritismo, había una demanda enorme de cualquier cosa que prometiera contacto con “el más allá”.
Ahí es donde entra Elijah Jefferson Bond, un abogado estadounidense que en 1890 registró la patente de este curioso tablero junto a Charles Kennard.La idea no era nueva, ni mucho menos.
Ya existían las llamadas “tablas parlantes”, pero eran lentas y algo tediosas.
La Ouija fue, básicamente, una versión optimizada: más rápida, más vistosa y, sobre todo, más vendible.
El nombre, según contaban, salió del propio tablero cuando preguntaron cómo debía llamarse.
Respondió “Ouija”, que supuestamente significaba “buena suerte” en egipcio antiguo.
Bonita historia… pero completamente falsa.Durante sus primeros años, lejos de cualquier connotación siniestra, se vendía como lo que era: un entretenimiento.
Un juego de salón para animar reuniones, algo así como el trivial de la época pero con un toque “místico”.
En la era victoriana, hablar con los muertos no era raro, era casi una moda social.Su popularidad se disparó especialmente en momentos duros.
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, muchas familias destrozadas por las pérdidas buscaban consuelo donde fuera.
La Ouija ofrecía una ilusión: la posibilidad de decir una última palabra.El gran salto comercial llegó en los años 60, cuando Parker Brothers compró los derechos.
Durante un tiempo, la Ouija llegó a vender más que el Monopoly.
Sí, más que comprar calles y hoteles.Pero todo cambió en 1973.
El estreno de "El Exorcista" lo transformó todo.
La imagen de una niña poseída tras usar la tabla quedó grabada en la cultura popular.
Desde ese momento, la Ouija dejó de ser un juego curioso para convertirse en un objeto maldito.
El cine hizo el resto.Y aquí viene la parte menos mágica: la ciencia.
El movimiento del puntero (la famosa planchette) tiene una explicación bastante clara: el efecto ideomotor.
Es un fenómeno por el cual hacemos pequeños movimientos musculares sin darnos cuenta, influenciados por nuestras expectativas.
No hay espíritus moviendo nada; somos nosotros.
De hecho, en experimentos donde los participantes juegan con los ojos vendados, el tablero deja de tener sentido.
Las palabras se vuelven incoherentes.Eso no quita que la experiencia pueda ser inquietante.
La sugestión hace mucho.
Si varias personas creen que algo va a pasar, el cerebro rellena los huecos.Entre las anécdotas más surrealistas está el caso de Juicio de Stephen Young.
Un jurado utilizó una Ouija en un hotel para “consultar” el veredicto.
Cuando el juez se enteró, anuló todo el proceso.
No es difícil imaginar por qué.Otra historia famosa cuenta que, para aprobar la patente, un funcionario pidió una prueba: que el tablero deletreara su nombre.
Lo hizo correctamente… y la patente fue concedida.
Suena increíble, pero no hay pruebas sólidas de que ocurriera así.
Probablemente es parte del mito que se construyó después.Al final, la Ouija es un buen ejemplo de cómo algo puede cambiar completamente de significado con el tiempo.
Nació como producto comercial, pasó a ser fenómeno social, luego juguete familiar… y acabó convertida en símbolo del terror.No hay misterio sobrenatural en su funcionamiento, pero sí hay algo interesante en lo que revela: nuestra necesidad de creer, de buscar respuestas y de no aceptar del todo el silencio.
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#ouija #historiareal #misterios #espiritismo #curiosidades #culturapopular
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Outlines six essential rules for Ouija board use, emphasizing safety and respect. These rules include avoiding solitary sessions, not using the board in graveyards, refraining from burning it, and removing the planchette when not in use. #ouijaboard #ouija https://connectparanormal.net/2026/03/20/avoiding-danger-six-ouija-board-rules/
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Seeing as you're making dice that are fighting the current situation in the USA right now, I think this would be up your alley. https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/TarouijaD120files.zip would be up your alley. It is a 3D model with OpenSCAD for tweaks, of a d120 but instead of the numbers 1-120, it has extended Tarot and extended Ouija as its symbols, via Unicode shenanigans, following this mapping https://www.reddit.com/r/d120Lists/comments/17mr2uv/d120_tarot_and_spirit_board/
Roll: Result
1: Ace of Spades
2: Two of Spades
3: Three of Spades
4: Four of Spades
5: Five of Spades
6: Six of Spades
7: Seven of Spades
8: Eight of Spades
9: Nine of Spades
10: Ten of Spades
11: Jack of Spades
12: Knight of Spades
13: Queen of Spades
14: King of Spades
15: Ace of Hearts
16: Two of Hearts
17: Three of Hearts
18: Four of Hearts
19: Five of Hearts
20: Six of Hearts
21: Seven of Hearts
22: Eight of Hearts
23: Nine of Hearts
24: Ten of Hearts
25: Jack of Hearts
26: Knight of Hearts
27: Queen of Hearts
28: King of Hearts
29: Ace of Diamonds
30: Two of Diamonds
31: Three of Diamonds
32: Four of Diamonds
33: Five of Diamonds
34: Six of Diamonds
35: Seven of Diamonds
36: Eight of Diamonds
37: Nine of Diamonds
38: Ten of Diamonds
39: Jack of Diamonds
40: Knight of Diamonds
41: Queen of Diamonds
42: King of Diamonds
43: Black Joker
44: Ace of Clubs
45: Two of Clubs
46: Three of Clubs
47: Four of Clubs
48: Five of Clubs
49: Six of Clubs
50: Seven of Clubs
51: Eight of Clubs
52: Nine of Clubs
53: Ten of Clubs
54: Jack of Clubs
55: Knight of Clubs
56: Queen of Clubs
57: King of Clubs
58: White Joker
59: Fool
60: Individual
61: Childhood
62: Youth
63: Maturity
64: Old Age
65: Morning
66: Afternoon
67: Evening
68: Night
69: Earth and Air
70: Water and Fire
71: Dance
72: Shopping
73: Open Air
74: Visual Arts
75: Spring
76: Summer
77: Autumn
78: Winter
79: The Game
80: Collective
81: 0
82: 1
83: 2
84: 3
85: 4
86: 5
87: 6
88: 7
89: 8
90: 9
91: A
92: B
93: C
94: D
95: E
96: F
97: G
98: H
99: I
100: J
101: K
102: L
103: M
104: N
105: O
106: P
107: Q
108: R
109: S
110: T
111: U
112: V
113: W
114: X
115: Y
116: Z
117: Yes
118: No
119: Hello
120: Goodbye
And in Unicode
🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂼🂽🂾🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃌🃍🃎🃏🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃜🃝🃞🃟🃠🃡🃢🃣🃤🃥🃦🃧🃨🃩🃪🃫🃬🃭🃮🃯🃰🃱🃲🃳🃴🃵𝟶𝟷𝟸𝟹𝟺𝟻𝟼𝟽𝟾𝟿𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉👍👎⎆⎋
The first section of characters is the contents of the Playing Cards block in Unicode, minus Red Joker (white is kept) and Playing Card Back. So that means the 52 cards (jokers included) in an English/American deck of playing cards, plus Tarot's Knight cards, so 56 cards (and these are basically a graphical suit with the value above it, in a 12pt cell), plus the 22 cards in the Major Arcana, with "Fool" as XXII as is done on some decks. That section is rendered as a 12pt card with Roman numerals I through XXII with IX and XI having disambiguation dots. The naming I used for the cards is the alias names Unicode gives the cards. So none of the "The Hanged Man" or the generic numbered-only names that Unicode gives as their official codepoint names. After that is Ouija's 0-9 and uppercase A-Z, using Unicode's Mathematical Monospaced characters (Courier) from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, in order to fit the 1800s playbill font commonly seen on Ouija boards, also 12pt. Now the next ones are the interesting ones. To represent Yes and No, I used the Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down emoji respectively, and the real interesting part is what I did for Hello and Goodbye. For those, I used two characters from the Miscellaneous Technical block, namely the Enter Symbol and the Escape Symbol, both seen on old Mac keyboards. The first one is a diamond with an arrow pointing inwards, and the second one is a circle with an arrow pointing outwards. The metaphor here is that "Hello" is entering a conversation, and "Goodbye" is leaving one, obviously with a spirit. And all this fills ALL 120 slots on a d120, with no empty or duplicate entries. A unique glyph for each side. The only fonts usable for this by the way are Unifont Smooth (bundled) or UnifontEX. No other font, even Unifont itself, has all the characters together, due to the fact that Hello and Goodbye symbols are in Plane 0, meanwhile the rest of the characters are in Plane 1 AND even include emoji, never mind that some fonts do not support the Major Arcana part of the Playing Cards block. So basically, you're stuck with these two forks of GNU Unifont, but UnifontEX is pixel and so is not exactly a fitting theme unless you're a hacker like I am. Plus, by a bout of sheer chance, ALL the characters after vectorization turned out fine (though White Joker's J is too skeletal in the loop), something that related characters (some of the other stuff in the same block as the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji didn't vectorize well) have trouble with. I was very pleasantly surprised that the emoji and the Roman numerals turned out fine. But ultimately this was a feat of engineering I did when I was bored from 2023 to nowadays.
Anyways, what makes this a compelling protest product is that it combines several things that fundamentalist Christians are very prone to hating. It takes Tarot cards and Ouija boards and shoves them onto dice that are literally divisible into an entire set of common and rare TTRPG dice, on top of the shape being a D&D d20 but divided into 6 triangles (putting a d4 on each face and then dividing by 2), a D&D d12 but divided into 10 triangles for each pentagon, as well as being a derivative shape of the d30 and d60. So basically, this "Tarouija" d120 combines multiple things that fundamentalist Christians consider "demonic" into one divination ritual item and thus is a great form of protest against the religious right. For the record I live in California. Hopefully this is interesting. Oh the OpenSCAD file needs the nightly build of OpenSCAD. #dicemaking #dicemaker #dice #d120 #unicode #unifontex #tarotcard #tarotdecks #tarotcards #tarotcardsreading #ouijaboard #ouija #3d #3dp #3dprinting #3dprinter #spiritboard #majorarcana #fuckice #protest #unifont #openscad #scad #3dart #art #tech #technology #code #font #fontdev #fonts #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodels #3dmodeled #computerscience #compsci #boredom #activism #ice -
Jusqu’au jour où, érigé en véritable #gourou, il arrête tout et décide de s’engager dans l’éducation à l’#EspritCritique.
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Ouija #DisasterMovie #AfterEarth 10 Movies That Are Almost as Bad as ‘The Room,’ Ranked http://dlvr.it/TP6v7R
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I just finished up the planchette for our Spirit board.
Metaphysically speaking, the design is kind of interesting - it depicts a qabalistic tree of life, with within each of the sefirot a flower of life sacred geometry pattern. The glass lens fits right in the spot where DA'AT would be positioned.
The backside has an upright triangle, a protection symbol / spirit-filter :)
Unlike most boards though, the pointy end of the planchette is meant to point towards the user, so hopefully nobody uses this thing upside down ;) -It's meant to serve as an invocation tool as well as a divination tool.
Mechanically, there's 3 layers of basswood here holding in the lens.
The bottom layer with the triangle on it, has, on the inner side, a pocket engraved out for the lens to sit in. The next (middle/inner) layer has a complete circle cutout to fit the lens snugly, the top layer with the tree-of-life depicted on it has a smaller circle laser-cut out. The whole thing is glued together with 3 types of glue, then the edges routed with a small router bit, sanded, and stained.https://photronic.art/product/4
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4392225463
#occult #divination #ouija #laserengraving #lasercutting #witchcraft #pagan
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I just finished up the planchette for our Spirit board.
Metaphysically speaking, the design is kind of interesting - it depicts a qabalistic tree of life, with within each of the sefirot a flower of life sacred geometry pattern. The glass lens fits right in the spot where DA'AT would be positioned.
The backside has an upright triangle, a protection symbol / spirit-filter :)
Unlike most boards though, the pointy end of the planchette is meant to point towards the user, so hopefully nobody uses this thing upside down ;) -It's meant to serve as an invocation tool as well as a divination tool.
Mechanically, there's 3 layers of basswood here holding in the lens.
The bottom layer with the triangle on it, has, on the inner side, a pocket engraved out for the lens to sit in. The next (middle/inner) layer has a complete circle cutout to fit the lens snugly, the top layer with the tree-of-life depicted on it has a smaller circle laser-cut out. The whole thing is glued together with 3 types of glue, then the edges routed with a small router bit, sanded, and stained.https://photronic.art/product/4
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4392225463
#occult #divination #ouija #laserengraving #lasercutting #witchcraft #pagan
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i saw a glyph or unicode character that looked like the #ouija board planchette. it seems a powerful symbol
#art #1bit #blackandwhite #solodev #pixelart #ドット絵 #oc #픽셀아트 #lowres #dessin #ditherpunk #doodle #monochrome #60Grid #1bitart #digitalart #illustration #artist #sketch #dotchke
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Ouija boards, rooted in the 1890s Spiritualist movement, serve as divination tools believed to connect the living with the dead, often perceived as portals for spirits. #ouijaboard #ouija #portals https://connectparanormal.net/2025/08/21/the-mystique-of-ouija-boards-and-paranormal-portals/
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nervous about making a good impression at a #sleepover i have next weekend.. torn between bringing #Ouija or #Jumanji to torment my peers
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A new piece in my shop. And on sale to boot!!
@Curator #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtForSale #ouija #ouijaboard #ouija_board #harrleywarren
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I realised that my generation of nerds played heavily with Markov generation of text, back in the 90s and early 2000s. We enjoyed the hilarious monkey-cheese nonsense it spat out, and occasionally shouted in amazement as the roll of the dice landed on a unique or inspiring turn of phrase.
But that's how I see #LLMs: they're not a tool to write things in place of humans; they're a #OuijaBoard. It's fun to sit around the thing and turn the crank, generating eerie effects and complex narratives! But we all know it's a pseudo-random system based on reflexes rather than fact or conscious thought. The #kaleidoscope makes pretty patterns, but not out of any sort of artistic vision.
That doesn't mean we need a world without #kaleidoscopes or #Ouija Boards. But we're in a massive PR campaign from people who make money if we all succumb to FOMO and think "Oh gosh I dunno, I heard the AIs are smarter than us, so I should use this to generate my work for me. At least I think that's what my company's #AI initiative is about?"
I love that we're referring to the output as #slop now. I think that's a good way to deride the clear drop in quality these things bring. But we should look for more neutral metaphors like the ones I tagged above, so that people understand the limited role this stuff should play.
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This is really far more accurate than it should be
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Welcome to the weekend, y’all! This week I split time between vintage suspicion and the spiritual side of 2016. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Filmastodon #Cinemastodon #Movie #Movies #Film #Films #horror #horrormovies #horrorfam #Hitchcock #BrianDePalma #Flanagan #ouija #luigiboard #witch or #vegan #mutantfam
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Ouija Skull/Handbuilt Show • Austin, Texas, USA
Hasselblad 500C/M • Kodak Portra 800 • 2023#Kodak #Portra #Film #Camera #120film #Photography #Austin #Texas #ATX #TX #Hasselblad #500CM #Revival #Handbuilt #Motorcycle #Show #Ouija #Skull
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Ouija Skull/Handbuilt Show • Austin, Texas, USA
Hasselblad 500C/M • Kodak Portra 800 • 2023#Kodak #Portra #Film #Camera #120film #Photography #Austin #Texas #ATX #TX #Hasselblad #500CM #Revival #Handbuilt #Motorcycle #Show #Ouija #Skull
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Ouija Skull/Handbuilt Show • Austin, Texas, USA
Hasselblad 500C/M • Kodak Portra 800 • 2023#Kodak #Portra #Film #Camera #120film #Photography #Austin #Texas #ATX #TX #Hasselblad #500CM #Revival #Handbuilt #Motorcycle #Show #Ouija #Skull
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Ouija Skull/Handbuilt Show • Austin, Texas, USA
Hasselblad 500C/M • Kodak Portra 800 • 2023#Kodak #Portra #Film #Camera #120film #Photography #Austin #Texas #ATX #TX #Hasselblad #500CM #Revival #Handbuilt #Motorcycle #Show #Ouija #Skull
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#TombstoneTuesday: Elijah Bond, inventor of the Ouija board
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
Born in Maryland in 1847, Elijah Bond was both a lawyer and a Confederate Army soldier. He also invented and patented several things (like a steam boiler), but he is best know for inventing the original Ouija board (patented in 1891).
When he died in 1921, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Many decades later, a paranormal enthusiast and Ouija board collector named Robert Murch spent 15 years searching for the lost inventor. He found the grave!
Through the efforts of many volunteers and donations, a fitting headstone was placed to recognize the achievement of the man below. The front of the monument bears the typical names and dates, but the backside is engraved with a replica of his infamous Ouija board. Goodbye!
#HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Graveyard #Monument #Memorial #Gravestone #ElijahBond #Ouija #OuijaBoard #History #Paranormal
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William Fuld (Ouija Board entrepreneur) and his sister Katherine talking to the spirit world (Baltimore.1939)
#OuijaBoard #Ouija #WilliamFuld #spiritualism #VintagePhotography #Baltimore
