cover of episode Episode 121 - The Ouija Board Episode

Episode 121 - The Ouija Board Episode

2022/5/10
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Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

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Everyone remembers their first sleepover seance in grade school, with the help of the Parker Bros’-owned ‘oracle’: the Ouija board. But why are so many people so scared of a party game? We're making contact with the Talking Board Historical Society for more on the old Beelze-Board.

  SHOW LINKS

  • Newsweek: Couple Find "Satanic" Objects)
  • Talking Board Society website)
  • American Quarterly: Spiritualism and Science: Reflections on the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings, R. Laurence Moore (1972))
  • AustinTexas.Gov: Spiritualism In the 19th Century, Katie Keckeisen (2018))
  • American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, by Jan Harold Brunvand (1996))
  • The New Black Magic & the Truth About Ouija, by J Godfrey Raupert (1919))
  • Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, by Bill Ellis (2000))
  • The Conversation: How the Ouija Board Got Its Reputation, Joe Laycock (2016))
  • Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, by Thomas Allen (2000))
  • Inventor's Digest: Did the Spirits Move Him? (2016))

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