Ouija Boards

Ouija boards have been around for a long time. Some say they started as a game early in this century and then mass marketed. In actuality the spirit board has been around for much longer. Only recently (as far as history is concerned)has it been called an Ouija Board.
Even thought the Ouija Board is marked as a game it is nothing of the sort. There are many people who have used them with absolutely no ill effects from the incident, and these people are the lucky ones. When you use a Ouija Board it is like picking up a phone and dialing random numbers. You could connect with a sweet old woman from a small town and have a lovely conversation or you could dial a 900 number and end up being charged a small fortune. There are good connections and bad ones.
But an Ouija Board can do more than connect with things, it can actually open gates into places that you really don't want open, and going back to my phone analogy it's an open line, meaning anyone or in this case anything can hop in on the connection at any time.
Ouija Boards can be dangerous. If you happen upon a malevolent entity that is looking for someone to torture you are up the proverbial creek. More often people happen upon entities that are looking for someone to manipulate. These creatures have no interest in the well being of the one they are manipulating and are only interested in getting their agenda fulfilled.
The allure of Ouija Boards is that they are mysterious, dangerous, and a taboo. There is good reason for this. Spirit Boards were traditionally used to make pacts with entities in order for a person to gain something, and as it is in life nothing is free. There is always a price. Fooling around with one can be dangerous because the thing on the other end may indeed help you at first in order to get you hooked, and then demand something from you later.
Never make a deal with anything that contacts you in this way, and if you are looking for a game to play with your friends on a night that you have nothing to do, I would suggest a good game of Clue or Pictionary, not an Ouija Board.

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