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How Ouija board works?

Updated: 10/4/2023
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If you want to know "how it works", it works based on the IdeoMotor effect: not spirits and ghosts of days past. Remember it is a GAME and a TOY developed and manufactured by a game and toy company.

The ideomotor effect refers to involuntary and unconscious motor behavior. The term "ideomotor action" was coined by William Carpenter in 1882 in his explanation for the movements of dowsing rods and pendulums by dowsers, and table turning by spirit mediums. The movement of pointers on Ouija boards is also due to the ideomotor effect. It's just a toy.

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The short answer is sympathetic Vibration from the hands of the players who have indeed laid Hands Down, on the table or board. gravity, centrifugal forces, and similar examples of Newtonian physical concepts take over from there- but well, the Devil may be involved. Bat silk is extremely fine material, can we cue vampiric laughter. It may indeed harbor demonic beings, I mean ouija, not Bat silk, which by the way was used by armbands ( Black, of course) worn by auxiliary SS officers on indoor duty in police barracks, command bunkers etc. It is radio opaque, does not trip off alarms.

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People have come up with many supernatural explanations for how ouija boards work, including supernatural beings, aliens and telepathy. However, the real reason is a psychological phenomenon known as the ideomotor effect.

The ideomotor effect occurs when the subconscious mind of a person causes them to perform a physical action of some kind. A common ideomotor effect is when a person cries as a result of feeling sad. In the case of ouija boards, the person (or people) moving the board is not consciously aware that he is the person spelling out the words. The message therefore appears as though it is coming from an outside source.

The ideomotor effect is also responsible for various other supposedly psychic phenomena, including dowsing and automatic writing.

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This is how you make an Ouija board:

You'll need

A pair of scissors

An A4 sheet of card (or bigger)

A pen or a marker

A glass or a penny.

Some paste (optional)

  • Start by writing out all of the letters in a row. Make sure that the characters are large enough to read. I recommend using two rows instead of cramping all of them into one row.
  • In the row below that write out all of the numbers 0-9.
  • You'll also need to write out "Yes", "No" and "Goodbye" symbols, which will make communicating with the spirits easier.
  • In past seances I've used others phrases which were specific to the spirit I was trying to contact.
  • Once you've finished writing out the characters, numbers and phrases, begin to cut out them out neatly, ensuring that you keep them in separate piles (believe me, this will save you some bother in the long run!)
  • You can skip this step if you don't want to create a permanent board at this time. Apply paste to the back of each character and leave it to sit for a few seconds before affixing it to the board. Have a look below at the various ways you can lay it out. Remember there are no hard and fast rules for laying out the Ouija, it should just be as accessible for both you and the spirit as possible.
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13y ago

A cup moves to letters to spell out a word.

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14y ago

They supposedly are controlled by spirits, answering your questions by moving your fingers across a board to letters that spell out something. Weird.. dont ya think?

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8y ago

this must be quite impossable and dangerous.

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13y ago

By the ideomotor response.

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Ouijo board

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