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The History of the Ouija Board
The Ouija board is most famous, I think, in the US and in parts of Western Europe. We're going to learn why the modern Ouija board has its roots in the spiritualist movement of the 1800s. It was that time people in the Western world got super duper into ghost. The Smithsonian has some great points about this spiritualism came around in Europe before it hit the US in 1848.
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