| Okay......I will tell you what
happened when I got rid of the board. I went to a Christian neighbor and told her what was going on. She had been telling me how dangerous it was to mess with such things ... in her opinion and religious raising it was wrong and I shouldn't meddle with such things. Anyways, I told her what had happened and she called her preacher, pastor, priest, whatever ... I don't know what title he had. The up-coming Friday she set up a meeting at his home and I had all of my occult things with me - from UFOs to Satanic dabblings. The board was with me but in the trunk, I couldn't stand being near it as it scared me too much. I felt uneasy and afraid the whole time I was around the thing. We got to his home and proceeded to talk of the things that I was experiencing and he surprised me by saying it wasn't time for me to know of such things yet, the key word being "yet" and my neighbor looked at him a little shocked. I never did ask him what he meant. We went outside to his backyard later. In the back were two burning barrels for trash ... and one was new. Into the old one we set all of my books, photos, posters and drawings, then he placed wood and doused it with charcoal fluid. On top of this he placed the board and the planchet, well actually he had me place them in there (for the symbolism?) and the he doused them with the charcoal fluid and placed more wood on top of it and more fluid. He then proceeded to light it and joined us farther back from the barrel and we all joined hands as he prayed. Now, my religious beliefs are my own and I don't flame anyone for theirs, but I did not pray. I stood there with my head bowed, holding their hands and I was drawn to look over at the barrel. I saw a face in the flames. Now you have to understand, the face was a part of the flames. It was constantly shifting because of the flame, but it never changed. It was a face. I don't know if you can understand that or not, but it is the best I can describe it. I must have squeezed their hands, I don't remember saying anything, but the neighbor said I made a noise ... and they all saw it too. The preacher-priest-pastor-? started calling on God's name even more and they all started praying harder. All I could do was stare, I don't know for how long, but eventually the face became flames and the flames died down. Afterwards we all went in and he stayed out to make sure the fire in the barrel was out. It was smoking and he just wanted to be sure. We were not expecting him to call us back outside. When he did, I didn't want to go. I had enough for one night. Eventually, I did go at my neighbor's prompting and we went to the barrel. The board was still in it. While everything else was ashes (and a few burned logs), the board was barely burnt around the edges, it was just blackened. You could still see all the markings on it too. So, he burned it again and this time it burned completely without incident. Although the barrel fell sideways from being burned through, when it was over, there was nothing left but ash. skeptika's comment: It is always important to close a ouija session. If you don't it is possible that what you spoke to will remain behind. It is better to properly close all sessions than burn the board, which is really no more than a tool. |
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