The words GOOD BYE also was written across the bottom, all in capital letters. Like the previous version (and most subsequent ones) this board was rectangular, had two rows of letters across the top, numbers spaced along the bottom and the mysterious sun and moon symbols labeled respectively YES and NO. This early talking board (the patent was filed on May 28, 1898) was the first with the Ouija name.
Bond, who in turn assigned the rights to Charles W. Six years after the appearance of that article a patent for a “Ouija or Egyptian luck-board” was filed by Baltimore attorney Elijah H. Horowitz cites a Maarticle appearing in the Sunday supplement of the New York Daily Tribune entitled “A Mysterious Talking Board and Table over Which Northern Ohio is Agitated.” The article included an illustration and description of an early talking board very similar to today’s version. If you want to get right to that last part then scroll down to the bottom, right to the “HOW TO” subtitle.Īccording to Mitch Horowitz, author of the critically acclaimed Occult America, the origins of the device known today as the Ouija Board can be traced back to the late 19th Century - although not reliably further back than that. Just below we provide a quick history of the Ouija Board, a brief recitation of some of its cultural impact, and some useful how-to instructions.
Although manufactured and mass-produced by the very staid Parker Brothers corporation, Ouija was steeped in spiritualist traditions dating back at least a century and was associated with esoteric religions, paranormal exploration, art and literature. In small towns and large, from Los Angeles to New York, the famous wooden plank and planchette seemingly was everywhere, delivering titillating, subversive entertainment for teen-agers and grad students, housewives and poets. Consider this: by the late 1960s, sales of the Ouija board rivaled that of America’s best-selling board game, Monopoly.
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