Automatic writing is a phenomenon in which a spirit or other entity expresses words or sentences in this world through a medium or a person with psychic abilities.
There are various methods of automatic writing, including using a pencil like in ordinary writing, and more recently, using a computer or word processor.
However, the method of automatic writing that is easiest to imagine is through the use of an Ouija board.
It can be said that in the United States, at the beginning of the 20th century, spirits summoned by Ouija boards were able to produce books through automatic writing.
In 1913, two married women, Emily and Pearl, living in St. Louis, Missouri, were playing on an ouija board when the board began to spell out poetic sentences.
The spirit called itself Patience Worth and made various predictions for them.
Patience's existence became well known in the neighborhood, before being eventually publicized throughout the United States by journalists.
Patience then wrote and published various stories via Mrs. Curran's Ouija board and dictation, including "The Sorry Tale" and "Hope Trueblood".
Although initially well received, due in part to its novelty, Patience's verbose writing soon received a scathing critique.
She published several more books and journals, but public interest had already waned, and Patience disappeared from the literary scene with the death of Mrs. Curran in 1937.
Who in the world was this Patience Worth?
It's still unclear whether she was a personality created by Mrs. Curran herself, or a real spirit invoked by an Ouija board.
Mr. Kokkuri's séance is also a kind of automatic writing, but psychics regard it as dangerous because it's said to summon low-level animal spirits.
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