Ouija Board Question

[MorningFate]

Ok, my question this time is...
Can wiggi(sp?) boards have anything to do with pagan/wicca religions?
What I mean, is is there anyone here that uses wiggi boards, like to talk with spirits and stuff like that?
My mom was telling us once about how her and her sisters were messing around with a wiggi board, and some weird stuff started happening to them, i think this was back when she practiced...but it was just another question that my curious mind was wondering about.

[Sobek]

you are talking about ouija boards right?
if so i have seen references to people here using them

[Witch1693]

I do, every samhain, i call my ancestor(20 generations). i call them to a mirror, and then i tell them to write messages in the oiji board.

[WolfWitch]

The Ouija board has it's origins in Paganism but I am unaware of the specific faith that it springs from. (Will google this later for own sake.) If used correctly and responsibly, I see no harm in it. The problem is that most people try to call a spirit in general. In doing this, you don't really know what you've gotten untill it's there and then it's to late to regret if it's something bad. If any one here reads Lovecraft (I recommend this during October as it's a good scare.) he has a wonderful quote from his "not so" short story, "The strange case of Charles Dexter Ward."

"Call up not, that which ye cannot put back down..." I try to live by this little rule. Don't always succeed but I try.

BB.
WW.

[hedge*]

History
The first historical mention of something resembling a Ouija board is found in the days of Pythagoras. According to a French historical account of the philosopher, in 540 B.C.E. his sect would conduct seances at "a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs, which the philosopher and his pupil, Philolaus, interpreted to the audience as being revelations supposedly from an unseen world."
Popular modern use of the talking boards came with the Spiritualism movement in The United States in the mid-19th century. Methods of divination at that time used various ways to spell out messages, including swinging a pendulum over a plate that had letters around the edge or using an entire table to indicate letters drawn on the floor. Often used was a small wooden tablet supported on casters. This tablet, called a planchette, was affixed with a pencil that would write out messages in a fashion similar to automatic writing. These methods may predate modern Spiritualism.
During the late 1800s, planchettes were widely sold as a novelty. In 1890, businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed, and thus had invented the first Ouija board. Bond was an attorney and inventor of other objects. An employee of Kennard, William Fuld took over the talking board production and in 1901, he started production of his own boards under the name "Ouija"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija

[saianalyd]

i use ouija boards- but NOT at night- they freak me out

[MorningFate]

lol ok, Well thanks for answering my question. I really appreciate it.