Conjured up out of America’s obsession with spiritualism in the 19th century, “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board” was created in 1891 by entrepreneur Charles Kennard and attorney Elijah Bond, and made by the Kennard Novelty Company. After Kennard and Bond left the company in the early 1900s, William Fuld, one of the company’s first employees, took over and continued making the popular spirit board. By 1920, the game had become such a fixture of American culture that Norman Rockwell featured a couple playing with a Ouija board on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. After Fuld’s death, the assets were sold to Parker Brothers, who manufactured the game until 1991, when the company was acquired by Hasbro. ›››
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