How To Use Planchet In A Sentence
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[Most of us reveal such a tendency whenever we handle a "ouija-board" or a "planchet," or let ourselves write automatically with a pencil.]
Memories and Studies
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The high portion of the left side of the die, the fields, could not properly smooth the natural roughness of a raw planchet.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News
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When brought down in the screw press it unevenly impressed the planchet.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News
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I'll be hanged if I can associate psychics with a biceps like Berber's; somehow those things seem the special prerogative of anemic women in white cheese-cloth fooling with 'planchette' and 'currents.'
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Some years ago, when the "planchette" first came out, I remember that it acquired quite a reputation as a particularly erratic piece of mechanism, but for real mystery and _innate cussedness_, on general principles, commend me to the indicator.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
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Wide-eyed and goosebumped, my sister and I looked at each other and then promptly accused one another of pushing the planchette from letter to letter.
Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games
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An atmosphere of levity does not conduce to the best operation of Planchette.
Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
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A certain befitting gravity should grace the occasion," Chris agreed, placing his hand on Planchette.
Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
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In some sense, therefore, the device allows the cursor to be a planchette in a virtual Ouija board effect.
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Errors include edge clips, coins struck on foreign planchet, flip over double strikes, and filled dies etc.
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The fingertips of both hands rested on the folder as though it were the planchette from a Oiuja board.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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In the earlier years of the spiritualist movement, a "planchette," a little heart-shaped board running on wheels, was employed to facilitate the process of writing.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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It explains why the planchette, in response to questions, glides so smoothly over the Ouija board to spell answers which seem to come from spirits.
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In a traditional classroom where we assumed that our students were driving the planchette, our tasks as teachers were fairly obvious.
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I think he might have demonstrated it by saying, ‘Hold the planchette without asking a question, and see what happens.’
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He abruptly ceased, for at that moment, to enforce his remark, he had placed his hand on Planchette, and at that moment his hand had been seized, as by a paroxysm, and sent dashing, willy-nilly, across the paper, writing as the hand of an angry person would write.
Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
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These two, together with Lute's aunt and uncle plus a Mrs. Grantly, and a corporate rich man named Mr. Barton, all sit down to a session of Planchette, a form of Ouija involving a "planchette," or triangular board on moving casters with a pencil at the apex of the triangle.
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
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Pursuing the Ouija Board metaphor productively, once we recognize that all kinds of things have to be in place before the student can place her hands on the planchette, what might that mean for the way we teach her?
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As we returned to the humble huts and partook of sheep-cheese and rakia, I remembered that many of the tribes of my own land believe in planchette and table-turning – consult palmists and globe-gazers, are "Christian Scientists" and "Higher Thoughters" – and reflected that all the training of all the schools had but little removed a large mass of the British public from the intellectual standpoint of High Albania, whereas for open-handed generosity and hospitality the Albanian ranks incomparably higher.
High Albania
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With their fingers on the planchette, they saw it move about the board's array of printed letters, numbers, and the words yes and no to spell our messages - she told him - from spirits of the dead.
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Players could also invoke the idea of possession by a spirit who temporarily inhabits one or more of the players at the table and directs the movement of the planchette (viz., ‘channeling’).
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The British governor of Hong Kong, entered into the spirit of the plot, briefing a Chinese contact who arranged for the prediction to emerge from a planchette message - a type of séance - at a Chinese temple in Macao.
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With a large planchette that makes the board very easy to use, it is the ideal gift for any Buffy fan who has ever wished to dabble in the “dark arts” and take a step into the “supernatural world.”
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations With Dead People” by Dark Horse Comics (Dark Horse, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
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Designer: Joseph Wright (thick planchet, 1793-1795, prepared by Robert Scot; thin planchet, 1795-1796, prepared by John Smith Gardner)
Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796 : Coin Guide
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In the 1990s I was involved with a small group of magicians who ‘created’ an egregore and then tried to make contact with it using a variety of methods, such as a planchette, the time-honoured seance method, etc.
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The idea that the planchette won't move for some people alone because the ‘devil has their soul’ is pure playground nonsense.
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My therory is that the planchet was on the floor and a worker picked it up and threw it in the proof bucket not thinking i quess, with floor residue and finger print i think this may be a logical explaination.
Unusual Items: Remarkable Double Denomination Mule 1993-D Cent with Dime Reverse : Coin Collecting News
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To have a unique combination of an extremely rare dated gold coin, with a six figure value in superb condition, that is also a mint error (struck on a 3 Cent Nickel planchet) is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Unusual Items : Unique Quarter Eagle Struck on 3 Cent Nickel Planchet : Coin Collecting News
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As they here suggest, unease over who moves the planchette is at the heart of the Ouija Board experience.
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If the dies are new or relatively new, a stronger impression may be made into the planchet, which is prepared blank disk that is transformed into a coin by a mechanical press.
Prooflike 1857-S Double Eagle Gold Coins from the Shipwreck of the S. S. Central America : Coin Collecting News
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· 1795 Flowing Hair, Three Leaves, B-7 extremely fine-Original & natural, but with a chip out of edge that appears to a planchet flaw.
Coin Dealer Julian Leidman Victim of Vehicle Burglary. Reward Grows to $156,000 : Coin Collecting News
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And, like the Ouija Board player, we may not be able to know how the movements of our classroom planchette will be related to our teaching intentions.
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Rendered in the terms of the talking board séance, the ontotheological habit is akin to presuming that the movement of the planchette proves the agency of determinate subjects, dead or alive.
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Using a Ouija board, for example, demonstrates that while the exercise of agency takes place in the movement of the planchette, the status and possibly even the existence of the agent who originates the action is undecidable.
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Mired in the humanistic belief that someone must be pushing the planchette, our unease grows as we cannot pin down the culprit.
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He really believes that he can receive messages from the dead through this very simple contraption: a cardboard chart of all twenty-six letters in the Latin alphabet and all the numbers zero through nine, with a plastic heart-shaped doodad known as a planchette that has three stubby legs and a tiny window of sorts in the middle.
Learning to Die in Miami
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The planchette moved, spun on its little wheels, painted nonsense curlicues over the paper.
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The Museum of Talking Boards contains galleries of previously manufactured boards and planchettes, and those currently in production.
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The motifs are fairly well centered on the planchet, and about three-fourths of the dentilation shows.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News
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After this the seances were given up but Jacobsen produced an instrument called a planchette and with difficulty persuaded Bickley to try it, which he did after many precautions.
When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
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Weight: 1793-1795, ±13. 48 grams; 1795-1796 thin planchet, ±10. 89 grams
Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796 : Coin Guide
