Communication Theory – Feel it Move !
No ? ?
In February, 1891, the first few advertisements started appearing in papers: “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board,” boomed a Pittsburgh toy and novelty shop, describing a magical device that answered questions “about the past, present and future with marvelous accuracy” and promised “never-failing amusement and recreation for all the classes,” a link “between the known and unknown, the material and immaterial.” Another advertisement in a New York newspaper declared it “interesting and mysterious” and testified, “as sProven at Patent Office before it was allowed. Price, $1.50.” Read more at Smithsonian Source
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Yes –
No – Maybe Sometimes It Moves
Knock Knock One Two Three …….
The first patent offers no explanation as to how the device works, just asserts that it does. That ambiguity and mystery was part of a more or less conscious marketing effort. “These were very shrewd businessmen,” notes Murch; the less the Kennard company said about how the board worked, the more mysterious it seemed—and the more people wanted to buy it. “Ultimately, it was a money-maker. They didn’t care why people thought it worked.”
Mystical Oracle & Family Entertainment !
Fun! Fun ! Fun !
~ with an element of other-worldly excitement ~
A MOVING Experience for Old & Young !
It’s Going to Move You !
Can you feel it move –
The Spirit is going to move
You 2 the Other Side……
Taste the forbidden –
dance for joy – secret power
Spirit boards have a long and fascinating history dating back long before the Ouija name became associated with them. But it was the Kennard Novelty Company that launched the “mystifying oracle” from homemade contraption to household name. William Fuld didn’t invent the board, but he did take over the company and turn it into the Ouija Novelty Company in 1892. It was a lucrative enterprise, and the Baltimore-based business quickly expanded. Strangely enough, William Fuld died from a fall off the roof of his Harford Avenue factory–a building the Ouija board told him to build. ( Is Ouija’s Dark Side Just Another Witch Hunt? )
1973 Cinema changes the message to The Exorcist !
Ouija board Evil
Live entertainment a threat –
It’s going to move
like a shower curtain scene –
showers are the devil’s work.
Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
just zip it up in the back –
behave don’t cause treble.