Obstinate and naive at best to consider the Ouija just a toy or a game. The fact that it's sold as a "game" is ludicrous. The board itself, sure, cardboard, plastic sticker, etc. It's not necessarily the "tool" initially, but how this item is used. I am a firm believer in its ability to attract the negative, to open doors/portals.

I always find it amusing when people start to throw around the "it's just a game, hee hee" banter. Do more research. Penn and Teller are great. I loved their whole deal on "which is dirtier, my butt or my hands?" but there is more evidence to look at than that which is produced for a single, hour-long show on a cable channel. If this is all your counter arguments are, then it's sadly lacking. The information about the Ouija (or message boards, automatic writing, divining) is out there. There are quacks, sure, and you learn how to sort through those and weed the proverbial garden so to say (in regard to information.)

As for getting rid of it, I would not bury it in someone else's yard or your own. With the crap going into products today, you might create a small hole in the ozone layer if you set that sucker on fire. I would, as people suggested, just toss it out, but I personally would paint it over or ruin it so it can't be used again. That's just me, not wanting to send that juju out into the world.

Cleanse the house, not the board. Go to your local mystical/occult bookstore and ask for a book on cleansing rituals or look on the internet for some kind of simple ritual.

Final note: Ignore the 'tards. There sure are a lot on the board.

[edit on 8-7-2008 by JungianQueen]

[edit on 8-7-2008 by JungianQueen]

I would suggest giving it away. If you sell it whatever is attached to it will stick with you and when we burnt mine we still had to do some cleansing and other things of that nature to really get whatever it was gone.

That being said I can't be 100% certain that it was with the board and not us but from past experiance when you ive something away the person is willingly taking it and whatever comes with it but when greed is a motivater then it will stay with you.

Where you from if your close or will pay postage I may take it off your hands.

I believe the correct method is to have the board blessed then binded within a box with linen and holy rock salt then burried.But that should be done by a practiced and knowlegable person.

DO NOT BURN THE BOARD

Just my opinion.

parker

[edit on 21-1-2009 by parker]

Alot of people on here have a very good point but I know from experience, DO NOT BURN THE OUIJA BOARD. This is why...

The Ouija board itself is not harmless or bad at all... it isnt... but the ouija board is an opportunity... it is a door. think of it this way.... your in your home in your bedroom... your bedroom door is shut and there is a killer on the other side..... now this door is beefed up with every alarm system and lock you can think of... but your stupid enough to unlock it and the murderer gets in and kills you.... now.... whos fault is it? The door's fault or your fault? I think we all know the answer to that one....
In basic context an ouija board is a doorway. now if a person does not own this doorway then most likely there is no active danger... but once you have bought the ouija board your basically screwed.

So to clear up all of that, the ouija board itself is not evil... it is a doorway that we were dumb enough to make in mass and then sell to 5 years across the country.

Now the reason we do not burn the ouija board is, again looking at this like a door, what is the point of a door if your just oging to burn it? that completely kills the point of the door.... now its just a hole in your wall that things can openly come and go through... doesnt make much sense now does it? say it with me.... no... no it doesnt sound very senseful... So as wonderful a preoblem solver burning the board may seem... it actually could make things WORSE. Ive tried different things and from what ive seen different ouija boards go different ways (none of which include being burned, left at a house when your move, or thrown away). I just leave it outside and keep my house blessed. If the ouija board gets the feeling its not with you it freaks out..... if your try and leave it at schooll... well good luck with that itll be in your backpack when you ge home i assure you.

The best procedure ive heard of so far that works is cutting the board into 7 peices sprinkling it in holy water and then burying it wuite deep within earthern soil.

I had a Ouija board that i stored upstairs for years then one summer i did some spring cleaning with my niece and she wanted to play with it i said NO i took it and burned it outside in the fire pit just incase there was some unknown evil attached to it..I don't believe the board to be anymore then a game but i wasn't takeing any chances ..(Burn it) Peace,sugarcookie1

I messed around with the Ouija Board a couple of years back when I was into the paranormal phenomena. Couple of my friends and I would go to Enchanted Forest here in LA, and we would contact with all kinds of spirits of sort. Then one day I just decided to get rid of it, I didn't know there was a proper way to get rid of it back then so I just threw it in the trash. No I was not possessed by the Ouija Board demon that night just because I threw it in the trash and not the correct way. Maybe just my luck.

Regardless, they say to burn it. Somehow I know that, I don't know why I know that I just do. Then do a salt pour around your living quarters.