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Essay / The Wonders of the Ouija Board - 1039
In a dark, candlelit room, a group of curious teenage girls gather around a small wooden board, their eyes wide open as a small heart-shaped object reversed slowly travels along the letters printed in dark black. Their fingers make slight contact with the object, but it still moves as if another force is pushing it. With racing hearts, the group watches the messages sent across the world and a sense of mystery and amazement is revealed. They are full of questions. What makes this mysterious painting spell out words and phrases: the spirit world or your subconscious? The ideomotor phenomenon has a well-developed history and study, similar uses to the Ouija board, and many professional sources behind it. Overall, the quantity and quality of evidence supporting the science behind the boards is extremely strong and provides interesting theories, studies, and history. The Ouija board was first published in the late 1800s, right in the middle of the spiritualist movement, when Ouija boards were just popular board games. The Spiritualist movement was a time when personal seances and invoking spirits became popular. This controversial board game was thought to have been created by Elijah Bond or Charles Kennard. Elijah Bond's name was listed as the inventor on the original patent documents, but it may also be Charles Kennard, as his Kennard Novelty Company is believed to be responsible for this mysterious new "game." The company named the creation Ouija, because it claimed the board told it that Ouija was Egyptian for "Good Luck", although this was not true. Basically, the table contains a set of numbers, from 0 to 9, all the letters of the alphabet, "yes", "no" and "goodbye". The planchette is the tear s...... middle of paper ......an, and Discovery {Channel}. There are absolutely no reliable sources that support the spiritual theory. Many include edited photos, videos and false stories. In a simple overview, the theory that minds control the board cannot be validly proven, and the idea of the ideomotor effect can be proven through studies, has reliable sources, and has many applications. In conclusion, the Ouija board can be proven by science. with the ideomotor effect. There are no spirits controlling the board, you are. Without even knowing it, you are the cause of the board giving you answers about yourself and the other players. Science is the reason the board moves. For a while now, people have wanted to know the cause, so with this knowledge from a compilation of reliable data, it can be concluded that you are the "spirits" believed to control the mysterious board game..