The cleaned up the mess and made a banishing spell. A little more detail in the story is that A. and her friend drew a pentagram (the symbol for good & evil in wicca)and placed the board in the middle. This left a doorway open to good and bad spirits to pass threw the board. I have learned how to keep the spirits happy from personal experience, the internet and books on the subject.
A few ways not to anger the spirits are:
1. Always be overly polite.
2. Don't interupt them when they are talking. (That really makes them mad!)
3. Don't ask to many questions about their past.
4. Don't ask question like, when you are going to die and is there really a God?
Here is the poem to attract good spirits and keep most evil ones away:
There is a land where we all go whence near the frost
and cold wind blow, and those remembered reunite, and
those who hate forget their spite. In glow surround
these gentlel beings, we call you now to bless our
meetings. In spirits promise our spirits thrive and
now for the living let the dead come alive.Greetings Spirits, speak thee to us?
Another way to keep evil away is sprinkle some rosemary or sage around the board.
A few things to do incase an evil spirit comes along:
1. Don't let the spirit count down through the numbers as this allows them to escape.
2. If the spirit is making a figure 8 on the board that is a sign that you have contacted an evil spirit, just flip the planchette over without letting it leave the board, not even for a second, and resume using the board that way.
3. Put a pure silver coin on the board.
A few more tips:
1. Never play alone.
2. If the planchette goes to the 4 corners of the board you have contacted an evil spirit.
3. If the planchette falls from the board, the spirit could get loose.
4. The board must be "closed" properly or the spirits will stay behind.
5. Never play the ouija board when you are ill, this will leave you vulnerable to possesion.
6. The spirits create "win" for the user, causing him or her to become dependent on the board, addiction follows. This is called progressive entrapment.
7. Evil spirits of the board will try to win your confidense with false flatteries or lies.
8. Never use the board in a graveyard where a great tradgedy has occurred this will bring forth malevolent entities.
9. Ouija boards that are not disposed of improperly will come back to haunt the owner (so they say).
10. The proper way to dispose of a board is to break it into 7 pieces, sprinkle it with holy wter and bury it.
11. If you burn the board and it screams you will have less than thirty six hours to live.
12. Never leave the platchett on the board if you aren't using it. Lecherous spirits will ask some young women to do rather... odd things. Ignore them and make sure you playing partner (ie. boyfriend) has nothing to do with this.
Three things to never ask a spirit:
1. Never ask about God.
2. Never ask when you are going to die.
3. Never ask where the gold is buried.
skeptika's note:
A lot of these sound like ouijastitions, take them with a grain of salt. I am certain that they are given in good faith, but advice from many regular ouijaers indicates that most of these points are far from universally true.