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Download or read book Planchette's Diary written by Kate Field and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the author's experience with the planchette, a forerunner of the Ouija board. The planchette, a small, heart-shaped board supported by two casters and a pencil or stylus, was used to facilitate automatic writing, thought to reveal subconscious thoughts, psychic phenomena, and clairvoyant messages. The narrative, implied to have been written through the planchette itself, describes encounters with a number of operators and guests, including transcriptions of conversations between the planchette and various interlocutors.