ouija board (English) ouijaboard

Japanese: ouija board(英語表記)ouijaboard
ouija board (English) ouijaboard

...It is said that if a person born in the year of the dog participates in it, they will not be possessed. In the West, it is called an ouija board (oui is French and ja is German, both meaning "Jesus") or a planchette, and it was widely used as an experimental tool in spiritualism, which developed after the 19th century. There are other similar divination methods around the world, such as the Chinese "dragon god divination," and it is now considered a type of automatic writing or table turning (a spiritual conversation is held by knocking on a table) in psychology, and it is also analyzed from the viewpoint of unconscious behavior.

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Japanese:

…戌年生れの人が加わると憑依しないともいわれる。西洋ではウイジャ盤ouija board(ouiはフランス語,jaはドイツ語でともに〈イエス〉の意)あるいはプランシェットplanchetteと呼ばれ,19世紀以降発達した心霊学の実験器具としても広く用いられた。ほかに中国の〈竜神占い〉など類似の占術は世界各地に見られ,最近では心理学にいう自動筆記automatic writingやテーブル・ターニングtable turning(テーブルをノックすることで霊的会話を行う)の一種と考えられ,無意識的行動という視点からも分析されている。…

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