I shall be most anxious to know what it writes, so if you've got an evening free any night soon just come round for a bit of dinner, and we'll make an evening of it, with table turning and planchette and palmistry.
The seances had been most remarkable, too; and he would have to get out his planchette again.
Suddenly coming to herself, she seized the pencil from planchette and wrote rapidly on the paper, while Mrs. Thaxter held her other hand.
Planchette put the clay down upon the slab, drew a pruning-knife from his pocket, cut two branches from an elder tree, and began to clean them of pith by blowing through them, as if Raphael had not been present.
That would be exceedingly useful," Planchette replied.
Planchette was a tall, thin man, a poet of a surety, lost in one continual thought, and always employed in gazing into the bottomless abyss of Motion.
Valentin was left alone withPlanchette in the empty workshop.
Raphael, Spieghalter, and Professor Planchette stood in the midst of the grimy expectant crowd.
Planchette himself slipped the piece of skin between the metal plates of the all-powerful press; and, brimful of the certainty of a scientific conviction, he worked the crank energetically.
Quite absorbed by his idea, Planchette took an empty flower-pot, with a hole in the bottom, and put it on the surface of the dial, then he went to look for a little clay in a corner of the garden.
Planchette was more straightforward with me, at any rate, when he said, 'I do not know.
Planchette serenely, "the piece of skin is as safe and sound as my eye.
The failure of science in this effort was a cause of amazement to Planchette and Japhet.
Planchette was a tall, thin man, and a sort of poet always in deep contemplation.
A small movable planchette supported on three or four feet is placed on the board; the sitters put their hands on the planchette which points out the letters, etc.
I have heard them on pieces of paper placed on the seance table, on books, on the walls, on tambourines, on small wooden articles, and particularly on a planchette which was used for automatic writing.
I will add that this manifestation does not present much interest, for I am perfectly conscious of what I write when alone, and when I write with another person, the movements of the planchette indicate to me what letters are being formed.
I told her to go ahead--but planchette wouldn't write.
Planchette began to write--at first in meaningless flourishes, then with occasional words, and finally Sylvia saw streaming away from the pencil the usual loose, scrawling handwriting.
Poor old idiot, she was certain that planchettewould tell who it was that stole our chickens.
The last time he was here, I heard Cousin Parnelia trying to persuade him to have planchettewrite him a message from Abraham Lincoln.
And I even know how to manage planchette and write mediumistically--save the mark!
Cousin Parnelia put one deeply veined, shrunken old hand on planchette and the other over her eyes and waited, her wrinkled, commonplace old face assuming a solemn expression of importance.
Finding my scepticism invincible by these means, my friend implored me to think in my own mind a question, and see if Planchette would not answer it.
The milliner, who was clairvoyant, covered her face with her gauze fan, while Pearline and Planchette Starr asked to be taken into the air, and left the room each leaning heavily upon an arm of the "Sheep King of Poison Crick.
Pearline and Planchette Starr no longer laid their arms about her shoulders and there was constraint in the voices of the younger sisters, Lucille and Camille when they sang out "Hullo" on their way to school.
A famous German spiritualist, Hornung, whose faith was well known, once laid his hands upon his planchette together with his wife, and then asked if there really was a world of spirits?
Their modern planchette is a small board, which they let float upon the water, with the legs upward; they rest their hands upon the latter, and watch the gyrations it makes in the water.
Lifting his great fist he uttered some Danish oath and with a single blow smashed the planchette to fragments, after which he strode away, leaving me astonished and somewhat disturbed.
After this the seances were given up but Jacobsen produced an instrument called a planchette and with difficulty persuaded Bickley to try it, which he did after many precautions.
The planchettehesitated a while then wrote rapidly and stopped.
I quote from the latter a description of the method used:-- The place of a planchettewas taken by a table, and M.
Sometimes by invitation she accompanied her, driving Planchette to Mrs. Lura's phaeton, and could not help admiring the executive ability of the brilliant little woman.
Planchette and the carriage are yet at the gate," said Mrs. Lura, glancing through the window.
Mother, I will have Planchette put to the carriage and take you and cousin Hilda for a drive.
Whitwell listened, withplanchette ready on the table before him, and he consulted it for telepathic impressions of Jackson's actual mental state when the reading was over.
The trouble seems to be that planchette can't tell," said Mrs. Durgin, and they all laughed.
But the next time he consulted the helplessplanchette as hopefully as before.
A friend, who told me that he saw Planchette predict truly the month in which the Boer War ended, admitted that his family had toyed with the instrument night after night, but he failed to remember any other results.
Planchette (described in Chapter IV) finds a place in the family circle, sometimes with the result that a single hit becomes a tradition after all the other stuff has faded from memory.
The authors no less humbugged the camp by planchette writing whereby they transmitted messages supposed to come from disembodied spirits.
One person can use Planchette alone, though the experiment is oftener carried out as described above because unintended movements are more readily produced by two operators.
For obviously the modus operandi of the Planchette is exactly the same as the table's.
The "spirit" of the Planchette will indeed write you out sentences; but to that, like the actor in melodrama, I will return anon.
Now, his brother was connected with the matter; and although at the time he considered the Planchette half wrong, yet in the morning, after reconsidering the question, the Author actually did send the wire to his brother instead.
The Planchette also wrote out the names of unseen cards placed upon it face downwards.
One is how the Planchette or the table is able to read cards placed face downwards upon it; the second is, is telepathy or thought-transference a possibility?
This is merely a projection of his own Sub-Consciousness, the Planchette being the artificial instrument for enabling him to give pseudo-objectivity to his thought, to detach a shred of his mind.
The Planchettealmost instantly scribbled: "Send a telegram to your brother.
Jackson put his planchette on the table, and sat down before it with a sigh; the Canuck remained standing, and on foot he was scarcely a head higher than the seated Yankees.
After a moment of faltering the planchette formed another letter.
This gentleman examined it, and was so pleased with its literary merit that he told Li he was quite sure to pass, and the latter thought no more about the planchette prophecy.
The young men then begged to know if there was any method by which such an evil might be counteracted; to which the planchettereplied that there was, but, as it was universally understood, there was no occasion for asking the question.
If the sitter is mediumistic the Planchette will begin to move about slowly at first, gradually gathering force and definite direction.
A sheet of paper of good size is spread upon a table, and the Planchette is placed thereupon.
Sometimes the Planchette will refuse to write for certain persons, but will write freely for others.
The Planchette is a little heart-shaped board, having two legs, with tiny wheels at the end, attached to the board.
The general advice is to exercise patience in the Planchette sittings, and not to expect to get the best results at once; and, particularly, not to begin asking questions immediately after the writing begins.
This is true not only in cases of automatic writing in which the hand is directly employed, but also in those in which some mechanical device such as the planchette or the ouija board intervenes.
Some persons report that to them the Planchette seems to move by itself, pulling their hands with it; but others report that they feel the movement of their arms and hands, as the spirit propels the machine in the work of waiting.
Planchette was then much in vogue, and one stood on a side-table in the room.
Planchette if a relative of hers, whom she named, was staying in town that night.
To deny the automatic character of the movements of Planchette at this day is simply absurd.
Fairly studied, then, what doesPlanchette really do?
Accordingly Planchette made a rude attempt at a hand and arm proceeding from an embattled wall and holding a sword.
Planchette writes: 'A spirit is here who thinks he will be able to write, through the medium.
Mr. Newnham remarks that Planchette commenced to move immediately upon the first trial, and often the answer to questions prepared as just described was commenced before the question was fully written out.
It was evidently this crest that Planchette was trying to sketch.
Epes Sargent's book, Planchette: the Despair of Science, contains in reality very little on the planchette board, and the title is somewhat deceptive.
Certain it is that planchette has performed some curious feats and has made for itself a position in the world of mysteries.
Secrets of which the person touching planchette is in ignorance have been divulged in a remarkable way, and many anecdotes shrouding planchette in mystery are repeated and believed.
Many believe that humbug was stamped over every movement of the planchette board, and that one or the other of those whose hands bore upon it conspired with the little board in the formulation of its reply.
Many think there is some hidden secret in the construction of the planchette table.
Planchette put the skin between the metal plates, and, proud of his new invention, he energetically twisted the crank.
Arrived there, Planchette asked Spieghalter to stretch the magic skin.
She motioned Miss Breeze solemnly to a chair near her table, and taking the planchette from its box, she arranged the paper under it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planchette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: automatism; levitation; materialization; poltergeist
