By Kirby Robinson
Copyright 2008-2009

Due to being busy on a case, I'm reposting a previous blog on ouija boards where I answered questions/comments I received about them.

It has been surprising the amount of responses and comments that this blog stirred up. I normally don't address negative comments; I feel people are free to think what they want. But there is a particular individual out there who's posting on various sites claiming I say my way is the right and only way. I do not think that nor have I ever written that in any of my blogs or comments throughout MySpace. So now let's post my original blog and then answer the questions.

"I didn't think I did anything wrong it was just a game we only wanted to see if this spirit stuff was real. They only wanted to stay the night we said yes and all hell broke loose." Those aren't lines from a movie script from the next slasher/stalker movie playing down at the local Cineplex. But the quote you've just read is all too real. They were spoken by a young lady who hired me to clean out her home as a group of demons came to live with her while she and her friends played with a "cute little ouija board" after a Saturday night of heavy drinking. By Sunday, the house was a mess, one "hell" of a mess I tell you.

You can walk into Toys R Us and buy one in the "games" department. Thanks to the Internet, you can play with a virtual one. (The invitation to a demon over the 'net allows the demon to cross over your threshold). You can surf many online stores and choose from a variety of ouija boards ranging from deluxe high-end versions, antiques, glow-in-the-dark boards, glass-topped ones, all the way down to the old Parker Brothers classic board. No matter what version it is, it all spells trouble for you, your home, your children's life, your life, and your blood. It's no game. It can lead you into a costly situation paying for the services of a person such as myself, to clean up the mess, or even worse, it can lead to your death.

Spirit boards have been around since the beginning of time. In ancient Greece, Egypt, and Babylon, they used them to contact the deities and departed loved ones and to barter deals with the dead. The Roman Emperor Valens used a spiritual board device to talk to the Roman gods in the 4th century. During the 1800s a form of spirit board was developed by using a turned over wineglass, preferably used, and letters were arranged across the surface of a table. At the height of the Spiritualist Movement, the great American thinker and writer, William James, endeavored to use such boards in his quest to prove that the spiritual world was real.

Back in 1891 Elijah J. Bond got the first patent for the modern board. A few years later, William Fuld purchased the rights to the board, and after his accidental death in 1927 (he fell off the roof of his three-story factory while erecting a flagpole), his first-born son, William A. Fuld, headed his company. In 1942, the youngest son, Hubert, became the president of the company and then sold the entire business to Parker Brothers in 1966. Parker Brothers opened a factory in Salem, Massachusetts to produce the boards. There is some confusion about the name ouija and its origins. Some report that it is a combination of two words for yes, oui in French, and ja is Dutch and German. Others contend that one of the developers of the board got the name from an Egyptian god who spoke through the board during a séance: ouija meant "good luck." Well, good luck, my butt, Hasbro Games bought out Parker Brothers in 1991 and continues to produce the "game."

Folks, this tool for spiritual communication is no game and SHOULD only be used by people who have studied the spiritual world long and hard. You must be able to discern and test the spirits that you communicate with on this board. Spirits will lie just like people. A dark spirit/demon will latch onto a board and via their spiritual warfare tactics and be or say anything you want from a god to just a friendly little ghost to a dear dead relative. They will lie, and very effectively lie. They will tell the truth if they know it and give you more details than you could ever imagine in order to prove that they are trustworthy. They will make bad and good things happen to show that their predictions are correct. All for one thing – an invitation into your home or person. And once they get it, they then will run rampant through your life trying to destroy everything around you.

One of the biggest DON'TS when it comes to these boards is to never use them in a cemetery. I don't want to elaborate too much, but it's a spiritual free for all when it comes to this lethal combination. So if you do hang out in cemeteries, make sure you don't bring along a ouija board. Another big DON'T -- never use the board after you've been drinking alcohol or using drugs, because it's very easy for a spirit/demon to alter perceptions. And the final big DON'T is to never use it between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m. as that's when the dark forces are at their peak powers.

If you have a ouija board, get rid of it. But just don't throw it away in the trash. One of my clients did that and the thing kept coming back, even if she tossed it out of her car miles away from home. When she returned to her house she was amazed to find it was waiting for her on the kitchen table. So how do you get rid of a ouija board?

1.    Say prayers of cleansing over the board, Hail Marys, Our Fathers, anything to drive the negative spirits away.
2.    Clean it with Holy Water if at all possible. As you cleanse it, say prayers of your choice but insert the withdrawal of any invitations made to the spirit through the board.
3.    Burn the thing ASAP after the prayers. (If it's a plastic board there wont be any ashes.) And dump the ashes off your property.

Ouija boards or spirit boards are not fun and games, even though they're promoted that way. They can and have caused a life full of troubles. There are better ways to talk to spirits than via a ouija board. Take the time to learn them. If not, stay away from the spiritual realm or you might get more than you bargained for.

1 "given the fact you are entitled to freedom of expression and freedom of the press;
BUT! c'mon. ain't you over-stepping it a bit? where do you get off making a blatant claim ALL of the boards are black magic evil?
WHERE is this written in stone? WHOM wrote it? YOU? NOT!
you are dead wrong here on this one.
this is the same thing as burning books because you think it's evil.
only mankind's need to twist things is evil. the board is a tool..same as a hammer. a hammer is not evil unless you kill someone with it.....
you really need to back off.....
know what I'm saying? let's not get nutso here, shall we?"

The boards themselves are not evil but at the same time
they're not toys.., and should never be used by children under any circumstances.

If a person is fully aware of all the ins and outs then there is nothing wrong in their use. But unfortunately, few are. And the manufacturer continues to market ouija boards as a game! This is one of the things that make it dangerous is that people think they're just playing.

2 "I was fortunate enough to know 3 generations of my family. They were all from Eastern Europe, and, passed down their beliefs and traditions. I am the fourth generation. My daughters, the fifth...yes, I made them learn the truths and legends, so much a part of me.

Often, I think that the Ouija Board was another method of reaching out to friends....in the dark.....alone, while their husbands were out with their goats. (This is and, isn't a joke. Men from my background were never always that faithful at the moment. Yet, they all came home, unless they got hit in the head by a rock, or, kicked by an overly excited goat.) Actually, it is sort of like My Space! A lone woman, in most cases, seeking contact with something, anything.

Back to the issue, at hand. I do not believe the information contained in this blog, is factual. Doing the board with 4 of 5 of the generations of the women in my family, I have been frightened...exactly, ONCE!!!

Ouija board is just another tool. So is MySpace. We all need to learn to use our tools, responsively...or, not play.

None of us have been "possessed", to my knowledge. All in all, with cousins, we are talking at least 300 women, from the family, from time then to time now. They love gossip, these relatives....I would have heard, with relish!!!"

Thank you for proving my point. You've had 4 generations of training in how to use it nor were you out there in the graveyard at midnight or just trying to contact random spirits. You showed the board proper respect and you've handled spiritual communication with restraint.

3 "why is it that we still have to tell people about this... anyone that is spiritual... knows knows not to mess with Ouija boards... it's the teens that we have to get to through too... the ones that think it's fun to play with the dark ones"

Unfortunately, mass retailers like Toys R Us and Target continue to sell it in their toy/games section of their respective stores, allowing the myth to continue that it is merely a toy or game that any child can simply play with. Would any reasonable parent go out and buy a book of spells, hand it to their child and allow them to randomly read the spells and place curses willy nilly on whomever they choose?

I've seen so many cases that the use of the ouija board was the first act in a tragic story.

4 "I could see a homemade ouija board being made with an entity in it. How if it's made at a toy factory be made with an entity. I used a board once and we had gotten good results from it."

The board does not leave the factory with a demon assigned to it. The demon simply attaches itself when it's used by individual(s) if the demon just happens to be nearby. The same can be true for a homemade board, as well. That's why they are not evil to begin with and if properly cleansed and an aura of protection put around the board. Or you allow only your spirit guides to communicate through the board, and then no demon can become attached to it.

5 "are dowsing pendulums considered to be the same as the ouiji board, should they be stayed away from as well? and what about tarot cards?"

Dowsing pendulums are in the same genre as a ouija board but not the same gem of a ouija board. They are meant to assist you in asking questions of psychic energies and not of spirits. You're not inviting a spirit to come in through the pendulum like you are inviting a spirit to come in through a ouija board. Should they be stayed away from? You should always be trained and knowledgeable before you ever use any psychic tool. Now tarot cards are a completely different matter. You don't have to be psychic to read tarot cards and you're not dependent upon talking to a spirit to interpret the cards. One of the primary reasons why the Bible concerns itself with tarot card readers is that people start putting faith into tarot cards and the person reading them, than in God.

6 "what happens if you still believe in love and compassion and a higher power... you still pray, but you don't go to a church.... what kind of demons could potentially come at you then? you said christians have the demons of the christian religion, hindus have the hindu ones, buddhists etc. i was just curious... should you just pick a religion and stick with it?"

Not to speak for the mind of God and the will of God, because He can do what He desires, I believe God offers some protection for nonbelievers/nonpractitioners. The level of protection increases corresponding with an increase in your faith as well as your commitment to the path. As one becomes more involved, then certainly there will be more protection offered. But I can't see a loving God not offering anyone protection of some sort.

7 "It's not the Ouija board it's the practitioner."

That's like saying it's not guns that kill people it's people that kill people. Yes, in a vacuum it's not the ouija board itself that can cause the harm but the misuse of the board that can cause the harm. But nowhere does the company indicate on the box that this is not a toy. People are given an indication that this poses no danger whatsoever.

8 "how in the world can somebody called "free alol spirits" tell anyone to say no to anything?
especially something whose supposed role it is to, literally, "free all spirits"? come on"

I'm sorry that you're misinformed and nowhere in the history of the ouija board was it ever intended to be a tool to free a spirit(s). And telling someone to be careful or avoid a situation that could potentially be dangerous isn't leading someone into bondage, actually it's helping people avoid entering bondage.


9 "As long as you set about using the ouija in a positive way and cast a circle of protection plus invite your spirit guides to come close you should have no problems , remember though, like attracts like!!"

That's very true, I wish more people knew how to do it correctly.

10 "I was reading your blog about the Ouiga Board and was wondering if you have something to worry about if you used one. When I was in highschool (almost 20 years ago) my friends were into that and at a slumber party they were doing it. I was to afraid and at first didn't go on but I was sitting around the board. At one point the pointer just kept going to the pictures when my friends asked who it was coming through. Then the pointer stopped, as it seemed towards me, and I moved over to my left a little and the thing moved with me. I told my friends and they asked if the spirit or whatever wanted me on the board. The pointer immediately went to YES. For some reason I have no idea why I ended up going on the board. Now I wonder if I have something to worry about. I have had strange things happen to me in the past even prior to me ever using the board (afraid of the dark, hearing things, seeing things out of the corner of my eye then when I look nothing is there) and occasionally now things happen."

It's possible that you have a spirit attached to you due to the use of the ouija board. What you've written has taken place around you wouldn't be indicative of possession or oppression. You can simply contact a minister or priest and ask them to say a prayer for you concerning your use of the ouija board.

11 "I know you say it will be in a blog, but do you think I should accept christ into my life and go to church?" D.

If that is what you feel compelled to do then do so. Don't do it if it's to please others or you simply think it's what you should do, or if you think that Jesus will solve all your problems instantly.

If you're answering a call within your spirit to do so, then you most certainly want to heed that call.