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Following a vintage automatic writing planchette ad down a rabbit hole

Digging into the backstory of an ad in Mystic magazine.

Digital drawing of an automatic writing planchette.
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The History of Automatic Writing Planchettes

The story of the planchette, a predecessor of the Ouija board.

A black and white digital drawing of an automatic writing planchette with halftone shading and a grungy border.
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Planchette and Automatic Writing (Ouija Boards Part 1)

Starting with the automatic writing method planchette, we begin a series about Ouija boards. We’ll dig into the strange history of the much admired and maligned method of communicating with spirits and/or having fun at parties. Before Ouija, there was planchette. Invented in Paris in the 1850s, planchette

Planchette and Automatic Writing (Ouija Boards Part 1)