planchette

How To Use planchette In A Sentence

• 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
• 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’).
• 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.
• 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
• 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?
• 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.”
• 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
• I think he might have demonstrated it by saying, ‘Hold the planchette without asking a question, and see what happens.’
• In a traditional classroom where we assumed that our students were driving the planchette, our tasks as teachers were fairly obvious.
• 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.