Ouijamania in 1920 Sources / The Feminine Macabre

Thanks for reading my essay, “Ouijamania in 1920” published in The Feminine Macabre! Here’s the list of all the works consulted in working on this essay.

Sources consulted 

Articles consulted 

• The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) · Thu, Oct 14, 1920 · Page 4: https://www.newspapers.com/image/29140667/?image=29140667&words=
• New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, Louisiana) · Thu, Jul 2, 1868 · Page 2: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/326033259
• The Confessions of Reformed Planchettist from Harper’s Monthly Magazine:
  https://books.google.com/books?id=jFxXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=%22the+confessions+of+a+reformed+planchettist%22&source=bl&ots=J60t13Rd2I&sig=ACfU3U2HOLAyj0-aSPNoF5rM08R2Rvq3lg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjezKOKhs_pAhXjj3IEHaidBakQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22the%20confessions%20of%20a%20reformed%20planchettist%22&f=false
• The Salina Evening Journal (Salina, Kansas) · Fri, Aug 18, 1916 · Page 4: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/94859533
• The Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kansas) · Sun, Jan 4, 1920 · Page 32: https://www.newspapers.com/image/63963344/?image=63963344&words=
• The Tablet (Brooklyn, New York) · Sat, Dec 13, 1919 · Page 7: https://www.newspapers.com/image/576116685/?image=576116685&words=
• Akron Evening Times (Akron, Ohio) · Sun, Feb 15, 1920 · Page 35: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/228193956
• Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan) · Thu, Feb 12, 1920 · Page 3: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/54779058
• The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Thu, Mar 4, 1920 · Page 1: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/457570132
• The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Tue, Mar 9, 1920 · Page 4: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/457597061
• The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, Kentucky) · Sun, May 16, 1920 · Page 22: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/375821897
• Santa Ana Register (Santa Ana, California) · Tue, Mar 16, 1920 · Page 8: https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/72259625

Books consulted

• The New Black Magic and the Truth about the Ouija-Board (1919)

Websites 

• https://covid19.who.int/

I drew from research I did while working on these Buried Secrets Podcasts episodes, which have their own source lists:

• Ouija Boards Part 1 – Planchette and Automatic Writing
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)
• 19th Century Ouija Board Stories / Early Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 4)
• Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Boards Part 5)
• Ouija after World War I (Ouija Boards Part 6)
• 1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Boards Part 7)
• More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Boards Part 8)
• Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)

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