Saturday, March 27, 2021

Shakespeare Reference in Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game


Yup, Shakespeare references seem to pop up everywhere. In Stoker Hunt’s book on the Ouija board, there is one mention of Shakespeare. Regarding the work of Patience Worth, supposedly a spirit who did a lot of writing through a woman named Pearl Curran, Hunt writes: “Reedy was a regular visitor at Pearl’s house, and he said of her poems, ‘They contain passages of bewitching beauty, of rare high spirits, of pathos. It does not equal Shakespeare or Spenser. It is not so great as Chaucer” (p. 31).

Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game was published in 1985. The copy I read was a First Edition.

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