Excerpt from Communications From Another World: An Abridgment of Planchette, or the Despair of Science
The future historian of the marvellous cannot well avoid some mention of the planchette or little plank. For his benefit we will remark that the year 1868 witnessed the appearance of the planchette, in great numbers, in the booksellers' shops of the United States.
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