OUIJA BOARDS chapter 142

Sarah had made friends at school with some girls that she called “dark.” They dressed all in black, painted their nails black and dyed their hair black. They were an earlier version of Goths. While Sarah ran with this group, she did not dress or dye her hair like them. She would spend nights at their homes and enjoyed playing on an Ouija board. The dictionary describes that board as “a board printed with letters, numbers, and other signs, to which a planchette or movable indicator points, supposedly in answer to questions from people at a séance.” Some consider the Ouija board a toy but many more consider it a gateway to demonic or evil spirits. I share the latter concern.

Sarah and her friends often asked the board questions and took the answers very seriously. It began to guide their lives. They used it to cause havoc in their classrooms and at their schools. The most important question she asked was, “Am I a witch?” She was pleased with the answer, as were her friends. At times she would go to downtown Vancouver where they would meet with others covens. It was there they hatched the plot to make as many teachers sick as possible on the same day.

Each coven began to make small burlap dolls about 12 inched high stuffed with straw or dried grass. Each doll was marked to represent a specific teacher. At the time the plan was decided, no one knew what, if anything would happen. They had tried curses in the past with some success. They had a couple of dolls representing a couple of teachers they all seemed to dislike. Apparently they had tried to make one of those teachers unable to sit down by puncturing his doll in the rear with pins. They laughed at the results and were pleased that it seemed to work. Only one of the girls always believed the dolls would work. She said her coven took credit for closing their school on the designated day.

I can hardly believe what I was hearing. Now I was listening to a girl telling me she had been part of the experience to make several teachers ill on the same day. This was a first for me. I was getting more nervous and even a little frightened by what I was hearing. I was becoming more and more frightened. Why had God seemed to dump this in my lap? I was not particularly open to would with anyone demon possessed. I spend my early days pleading with God to remove this curse.

I reported to my wife and the church staff what I had heard and asked advice and their help. I got neither from the staff and turned to my wife to talk and pray about the situation. We both felt this was too big to just ignore or pretend it did not exist. There was no doubt in my mind that I had never walked so close to the Lord.  I made sure everything was right with God and that I was living as a pure life, We decided to pursue getting her to pray in Gods name.

The next meeting I had with Sarah was when she said she hated what was happening to her and could not get out of the coven. She hated what they were doing and how they acted and lived. She did not know how to escape. She was in tears. I advised her to cut off all relations immediately. She tried, but did not completely succeed. She did stop going to their homes. She was told that now that she was “in,” she could not get out.

This meeting occurred after trying to deal with her bringing pins to youth group and sticking people next to her. This was becoming a regular thing.  The kids being poked did not think it was funny. Strangely, neither did Sarah. She didn’t know why she did it or so she said. She could not help herself. That was hard to believe. If you really want to stop something, just stop. She believed a demon was making her do it. That was the first time she had suggested there might be demons influencing her.

When praying together after our session I asked her to pray. There was a long silence and I encouraged her again to pray. Then a deep gravely voice came out of her throat and said, “never.” Later the same voice said, “Do not talk to God.” I had read that a demon had only one job. This one gave its name and its job was to prevent prayer. I prayed what I thought might cast out the spirit but that did not happen. This one was back again in a later session.