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Ouija

American  
[wee-juh, -jee] / ˈwi dʒə, -dʒi /
Trademark.
  1. a device consisting of a small board, or planchette, on legs that rest on a larger board marked with words, letters of the alphabet, etc., and that by moving over the larger board and touching the words, letters, etc., while the fingers of spiritualists, mediums, or others rest lightly upon it, is employed to answer questions, give messages, etc.


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Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

He also cites use of the Ouija board during the American Civil War and people's interest in demons and witches during the troubled Jacobean era.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2023

Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits in the U.K.’s thriving online human remains trade, a Live Science investigation has found.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 7, 2022

On Easter or Thanksgiving, we would have séances in which we would use the Ouija board.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

Ouija boards and black cats are way down the list of neuroses I suffer from.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

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