Word: ouija
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along with blondes, where they should travel. Since centuries before Tut of the Egyptians, a canny minority has been answering these more-or-less cosmic riddles for the curious majority. The answers are not always correct, but they have some fine trappings?crimson draperies, crystal balls, ouija boards, wet towels...
...American Institute of Phrenologists, inspected the files of Manhattan hatters and read character into skulls shaped like bathtubs, pears, eggs. But, said he: "It is the contents and not the symmetry of a skull which counts in the long run." Perhaps that is why numerologists, crystal-gazers, table-tippers, ouija-board-pushers, rhythmical dancers and all-round yogis stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their...
Died. William Fuld, 54, toy manufacturer of Baltimore, Md. Superintending the replacement of a flagpole on his factory's roof, he balanced himself by a stanchion, which tore loose. His most famed and fortunate toy invention was the Ouija board...
Novelists Margaret Deland and Mary Austin pleaded, Mrs. Deland in person, for further study of life after death. She told how she had been converted to spiritualism by the ouija board and the inexplicable "residue" left in mediumistic trances after all cheating had been subtracted. Mrs. Austin's faith resulted from her studies of primitive American Indian customs and the behavior of animals at the approach of death...
...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...