𝑳𝒂 𝑶𝒖𝒊𝒋𝒂: 𝒅𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒆𝒈𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒐́𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒂  

La historia de la tabla Ouija no empieza con espíritus ni posesiones, sino con algo mucho más terrenal: el negocio.
A finales del siglo XIX, en plena fiebre del espiritismo, había una demanda enorme de cualquier cosa que prometiera contacto con “el más allá”.
Ahí es donde entra Elijah Jefferson Bond, un abogado estadounidense que en 1890 registró la patente de este curioso tablero junto a Charles Kennard.

La idea no era nueva, ni mucho menos.
Ya existían las llamadas “tablas parlantes”, pero eran lentas y algo tediosas.
La Ouija fue, básicamente, una versión optimizada: más rápida, más vistosa y, sobre todo, más vendible.
El nombre, según contaban, salió del propio tablero cuando preguntaron cómo debía llamarse.
Respondió “Ouija”, que supuestamente significaba “buena suerte” en egipcio antiguo.
Bonita historia… pero completamente falsa.

Durante sus primeros años, lejos de cualquier connotación siniestra, se vendía como lo que era: un entretenimiento.
Un juego de salón para animar reuniones, algo así como el trivial de la época pero con un toque “místico”.
En la era victoriana, hablar con los muertos no era raro, era casi una moda social.

Su popularidad se disparó especialmente en momentos duros.
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, muchas familias destrozadas por las pérdidas buscaban consuelo donde fuera.
La Ouija ofrecía una ilusión: la posibilidad de decir una última palabra.

El gran salto comercial llegó en los años 60, cuando Parker Brothers compró los derechos.
Durante un tiempo, la Ouija llegó a vender más que el Monopoly.
Sí, más que comprar calles y hoteles.

Pero todo cambió en 1973.

El estreno de "El Exorcista" lo transformó todo.
La imagen de una niña poseída tras usar la tabla quedó grabada en la cultura popular.
Desde ese momento, la Ouija dejó de ser un juego curioso para convertirse en un objeto maldito.
El cine hizo el resto.

Y aquí viene la parte menos mágica: la ciencia.

El movimiento del puntero (la famosa planchette) tiene una explicación bastante clara: el efecto ideomotor.
Es un fenómeno por el cual hacemos pequeños movimientos musculares sin darnos cuenta, influenciados por nuestras expectativas.
No hay espíritus moviendo nada; somos nosotros.
De hecho, en experimentos donde los participantes juegan con los ojos vendados, el tablero deja de tener sentido.
Las palabras se vuelven incoherentes.

Eso no quita que la experiencia pueda ser inquietante.
La sugestión hace mucho.
Si varias personas creen que algo va a pasar, el cerebro rellena los huecos.

Entre las anécdotas más surrealistas está el caso de Juicio de Stephen Young.
Un jurado utilizó una Ouija en un hotel para “consultar” el veredicto.
Cuando el juez se enteró, anuló todo el proceso.
No es difícil imaginar por qué.

Otra historia famosa cuenta que, para aprobar la patente, un funcionario pidió una prueba: que el tablero deletreara su nombre.
Lo hizo correctamente… y la patente fue concedida.
Suena increíble, pero no hay pruebas sólidas de que ocurriera así.
Probablemente es parte del mito que se construyó después.

Al final, la Ouija es un buen ejemplo de cómo algo puede cambiar completamente de significado con el tiempo.
Nació como producto comercial, pasó a ser fenómeno social, luego juguete familiar… y acabó convertida en símbolo del terror.

No hay misterio sobrenatural en su funcionamiento, pero sí hay algo interesante en lo que revela: nuestra necesidad de creer, de buscar respuestas y de no aceptar del todo el silencio.

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#ouija #historiareal #misterios #espiritismo #curiosidades #culturapopular

As in all good #Ouija sessions, the planchette moves by itself!.

We absolutely did not spend four hours trying to relearn mask paths in After Effects.

(Fun fact: the Ouija details come from a board in our personal collection)

#horror

Outlines six essential rules for Ouija board use, emphasizing safety and respect. These rules include avoiding solitary sessions, not using the board in graveyards, refraining from burning it, and removing the planchette when not in use. #ouijaboard #ouija https://connectparanormal.net/2026/03/20/avoiding-danger-six-ouija-board-rules/
Avoiding Danger: Six Ouija Board Rules

Learn important ouija board rules to ensure a safe and respectful experience when using the board with others.

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|ZINE DE VARRIO| #5 OUIJA (2014) ft David Meyhem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWYzjq9iOo

#zine #varrio #ouija

|ZINE DE VARRIO| #5 OUIJA (2014) ft David Meyhem.

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@evermorian

Seeing as you're making dice that are fighting the current situation in the USA right now, I think
this would be up your alley. https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/TarouijaD120files.zip would be up your alley. It is a 3D model with OpenSCAD for tweaks, of a d120 but instead of the numbers 1-120, it has extended Tarot and extended Ouija as its symbols, via Unicode shenanigans, following this mapping https://www.reddit.com/r/d120Lists/comments/17mr2uv/d120_tarot_and_spirit_board/

Roll: Result
1: Ace of Spades

2: Two of Spades

3: Three of Spades

4: Four of Spades

5: Five of Spades

6: Six of Spades

7: Seven of Spades

8: Eight of Spades

9: Nine of Spades

10: Ten of Spades

11: Jack of Spades

12: Knight of Spades

13: Queen of Spades

14: King of Spades

15: Ace of Hearts

16: Two of Hearts

17: Three of Hearts

18: Four of Hearts

19: Five of Hearts

20: Six of Hearts

21: Seven of Hearts

22: Eight of Hearts

23: Nine of Hearts

24: Ten of Hearts

25: Jack of Hearts

26: Knight of Hearts

27: Queen of Hearts

28: King of Hearts

29: Ace of Diamonds

30: Two of Diamonds

31: Three of Diamonds

32: Four of Diamonds

33: Five of Diamonds

34: Six of Diamonds

35: Seven of Diamonds

36: Eight of Diamonds

37: Nine of Diamonds

38: Ten of Diamonds

39: Jack of Diamonds

40: Knight of Diamonds

41: Queen of Diamonds

42: King of Diamonds

43: Black Joker

44: Ace of Clubs

45: Two of Clubs

46: Three of Clubs

47: Four of Clubs

48: Five of Clubs

49: Six of Clubs

50: Seven of Clubs

51: Eight of Clubs

52: Nine of Clubs

53: Ten of Clubs

54: Jack of Clubs

55: Knight of Clubs

56: Queen of Clubs

57: King of Clubs

58: White Joker

59: Fool

60: Individual

61: Childhood

62: Youth

63: Maturity

64: Old Age

65: Morning

66: Afternoon

67: Evening

68: Night

69: Earth and Air

70: Water and Fire

71: Dance

72: Shopping

73: Open Air

74: Visual Arts

75: Spring

76: Summer

77: Autumn

78: Winter

79: The Game

80: Collective

81: 0

82: 1

83: 2

84: 3

85: 4

86: 5

87: 6

88: 7

89: 8

90: 9

91: A

92: B

93: C

94: D

95: E

96: F

97: G

98: H

99: I

100: J

101: K

102: L

103: M

104: N

105: O

106: P

107: Q

108: R

109: S

110: T

111: U

112: V

113: W

114: X

115: Y

116: Z

117: Yes

118: No

119: Hello

120: Goodbye

And in Unicode

🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂼🂽🂾🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃌🃍🃎
🃏🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃜🃝🃞🃟🃠🃡🃢🃣🃤🃥🃦🃧🃨🃩🃪🃫🃬🃭🃮🃯🃰🃱🃲🃳🃴🃵𝟶𝟷𝟸𝟹𝟺𝟻𝟼𝟽𝟾𝟿𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉👍👎⎆⎋

The first section of characters is the contents of the Playing Cards block in Unicode, minus Red Joker (white is kept) and Playing Card Back. So that means the 52 cards (jokers included) in an English/American deck of playing cards, plus Tarot's Knight cards, so 56 cards (and these are basically a graphical suit with the value above it, in a 12pt cell), plus the 22 cards in the Major Arcana, with "Fool" as XXII as is done on some decks. That section is rendered as a 12pt card with Roman numerals I through XXII with IX and XI having disambiguation dots. The naming I used for the cards is the
alias names Unicode gives the cards. So none of the "The Hanged Man" or the generic numbered-only names that Unicode gives as their official codepoint names. After that is Ouija's 0-9 and uppercase A-Z, using Unicode's Mathematical Monospaced characters (Courier) from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, in order to fit the 1800s playbill font commonly seen on Ouija boards, also 12pt. Now the next ones are the interesting ones. To represent Yes and No, I used the Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down emoji respectively, and the real interesting part is what I did for Hello and Goodbye. For those, I used two characters from the Miscellaneous Technical block, namely the Enter Symbol and the Escape Symbol, both seen on old Mac keyboards. The first one is a diamond with an arrow pointing inwards, and the second one is a circle with an arrow pointing outwards. The metaphor here is that "Hello" is entering a conversation, and "Goodbye" is leaving one, obviously with a spirit. And all this fills ALL 120 slots on a d120, with no empty or duplicate entries. A unique glyph for each side. The only fonts usable for this by the way are Unifont Smooth (bundled) or UnifontEX. No other font, even Unifont itself, has all the characters together, due to the fact that Hello and Goodbye symbols are in Plane 0, meanwhile the rest of the characters are in Plane 1 AND even include emoji, never mind that some fonts do not support the Major Arcana part of the Playing Cards block. So basically, you're stuck with these two forks of GNU Unifont, but UnifontEX is pixel and so is not exactly a fitting theme unless you're a hacker like I am. Plus, by a bout of sheer chance, ALL the characters after vectorization turned out fine (though White Joker's J is too skeletal in the loop), something that related characters (some of the other stuff in the same block as the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji didn't vectorize well) have trouble with. I was very pleasantly surprised that the emoji and the Roman numerals turned out fine. But ultimately this was a feat of engineering I did when I was bored from 2023 to nowadays.

Anyways, what makes this a compelling protest product is that it combines several things that fundamentalist Christians are very prone to hating. It takes Tarot cards and Ouija boards and shoves them onto dice that are literally divisible into an entire set of common and rare TTRPG dice, on top of the shape being a D&D d20 but divided into 6 triangles (putting a d4 on each face and then dividing by 2), a D&D d12 but divided into 10 triangles for each pentagon, as well as being a derivative shape of the d30 and d60. So basically, this "Tarouija" d120 combines multiple things that fundamentalist Christians consider "demonic" into one divination ritual item and thus is a great form of protest against the religious right. For the record I live in California. Hopefully this is interesting. Oh the OpenSCAD file needs the nightly build of OpenSCAD.
#dicemaking #dicemaker #dice #d120 #unicode #unifontex #tarotcard #tarotdecks #tarotcards #tarotcardsreading #ouijaboard #ouija #3d #3dp #3dprinting #3dprinter #spiritboard #majorarcana #fuckice #protest #unifont #openscad #scad #3dart #art #tech #technology #code #font #fontdev #fonts #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodels #3dmodeled #computerscience #compsci #boredom #activism #ice

|ZINE DE VARRIO| #5 OUIJA (2014) ft David Meyhem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWYzjq9iOo

#zine #varrio #ouija

|ZINE DE VARRIO| #5 OUIJA (2014) ft David Meyhem.

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lmaoooo #maga gets very upset if you tell them charlie kirk and ashli babbit were "unavailable for comment" via #ouija board lol #uspol #paranormal #ghosts
Good morning. Wanna summon a ghost or two? 😄
#magick #ouija