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Ouija boards were initially patented and aggressively marketed as a fun family parlor game

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Long before Hollywood convinced us that moving a piece of wood summons demons, capitalists were selling it next to Monopoly. The original creators didn't care about the afterlife; they just wanted a cheap gimmick to extract cash from bored middle-class families.

Ouija boards were initially patented and aggressively marketed as a fun family parlor game
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