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Planchette   Listen
noun
Planchette  n.  
1.
A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.
2.
A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.





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"Planchette" Quotes from Famous Books



... were to empty his or her pockets, would there not roll out, from more than one of them, a horse-chestnut, carried about as a cure for rheumatism? The brazen head of Roger Bacon is mute; but is not "Planchette" uttering her responses in a hundred houses of this city? We think of palmistry or chiromancy as belonging to the days of Albertus Magnus, or, if existing in our time, as given over to the gypsies; but a very distinguished person has recently shown me the ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... regard an elevator indicator with a feeling of wonder. 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 ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various


Words linked to "Planchette" :   Ouija, board, Ouija board


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