| In some sense, therefore, the device allows the cursor to be a planchette in a virtual Ouija board effect. |
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| As they here suggest, unease over who moves the planchette is at the heart of the Ouija Board experience. |
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| Mired in the humanistic belief that someone must be pushing the planchette, our unease grows as we cannot pin down the culprit. |
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| In a traditional classroom where we assumed that our students were driving the planchette, our tasks as teachers were fairly obvious. |
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| A planchette or pointer of some sort is manipulated by those using the board. |
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| The planchette moved, spun on its little wheels, painted nonsense curlicues over the paper. |
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| 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. |
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| It seemed like something that was too powerful to be trifled with, like a planchette resting atop a Ouija board. |
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| At times it felt as if the book were moving things around me like a planchette on a Ouija board. |
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| 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. |
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| And, like the Ouija Board player, we may not be able to know how the movements of our classroom planchette will be related to our teaching intentions. |
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| I put my hands on the keyboard like on the planchette of a Ouija Board hoping to conjure something. |
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| It's like using a Ouija board, but instead of a little wooden planchette you are tugging at a two-hundred-dollar piece of technology that contains your entire existence. |
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| The witchboard comes with its own planchette. |
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| Another minor form of puppet representation is provided by the jigging puppets, or marionnettes à la planchette, that were, during the 18th and 19th centuries, frequently performed at street corners throughout Europe. |
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