Oh where to start on this piece? 4 foot tall by 5 foot wide Ouija board.
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Available for purchase at BSSart.com/ordering Hand painted on antiqued and mached bible pages on a stretched canvas frame. Colors are metallic, flat black outline. Outline is partial acrylic paint, partial Sharpie. many different types of glitter thinned out and spread through the piece. The entire piece is stained and aged, then coated with a sealant. Pictures are with 2 different cameras in different lighting. The piece changes mood through the day. One of 2 made, while this one is available, the other has been sold and is already in its happy new home. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “I was truly inspired to make a huge Ouija Board while in a hotel room in the Ozarks during off season. There I was in the middle of Missouri, and there was this bible in the drawer. I looked at it and thought what a waste of good paper. There has to be something I can do with it. So I threw it in my bag and forgot about it until I arrived back home in Florida. I actually own one of the very first Ouija Boards, it was handed down to me after my Mom passed away. It was coming up on the anniversary of her death and I decided I was going to pay a little tribute to her memory. The first one I started was the last one to finish. An old Army buddy wanted to purchase it, but I didnt want to ship a piece that big, all stretched out on a frame. So I started a copy, an un-stretched one that could be rolled up and shipped. That second piece had a cloth backer, while this one is canvas. There are some coloring differences, and this one has specific passages pulled out for each of the icons. I love them both, and hope to hold on to this one for a bit before it goes.” -Benjamin Sawin
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The ouija, also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", "hello" (occasionally), and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics. It uses a small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic called a planchette. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words. "Ouija" was formerly a trademark belonging to Parker Brothers, and has subsequently become a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States, but is often used generically to refer to any talking board. According to Hasbro, players take turns asking questions and then "wait to see what the planchette spells out" for them.
Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on July 1, 1890, the ouija board was regarded as a parlor game unrelated to the occult until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I. Spiritualists claimed that the dead were able to contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a modern ouija board at their camps in Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable faster communication with spirits.
The Catholic Church and other Christian denominations have "warned against using ouija boards", holding that they can lead to demonic possession. Occultists, on the other hand, are divided on the issue, with some saying that it can be a positive transformation; others reiterate the warnings of many Christians and caution "inexperienced users" against it.
