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planchette|plænˈʃɛt, plɑ̃ʃɛt|
[a. F. planchette small board, dim. of planche plank.]
1. ‘A small plank or board’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).
2. An instrument, invented about 1855, used in the investigation of automatism and other psychical phenomena, consisting of a small board, generally heart-shaped, supported by two castors and a vertical pencil, which, when one or more persons rest their fingers lightly on the board, is said to trace lines or letters, and even to write sentences, without conscious direction or effort. Also Comb., as planchette-board, planchette-writer, planchette-writing; planchette-like adj.
1860All Year Round No. 66. 372 Like the effusions of all the self-deluding users of the planchette. 1879O. W. Holmes School-boy 19 The truant goose-quill travelling like Planchette. 1884F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. Dec. 232 The Spiritualist theory of Planchette-writing assumes the former of these two hypotheses. 1896Daily News 5 Mar. 6/1 For nine years he toyed with the planchette, the turned tables, in short used the familiar, hanky-panky means of communication with the unseen world. 1909Planchette writing [see ouija]. 1914H. Carrington Probl. Psychical Res. xii. 371 There can be little doubt that the same force which propels the planchette board propels the ouija board also. 1920Q. Rev. July 196 He could not see how so vigorous a creative faculty..could be only a vague Planchette-like state of possession. 1920Planchette-writer [see crystal-gazer s.v. crystal n. B. 2 c]. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play ix. 71 The planchette board circled wildly, both men keeping their fingers hard down upon it.
3. ‘A circumferentor’. (Simmonds Dict. Trade.).
4. See also planchet 3. |