Ouija Board and Automatic Writing - Annotated

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Born Hubert Lavington in Great Britain, Hereward Carrington immigrated to the United States in 1899, at the age of 19, and soon afterwards started his career as a psychic researcher. In 1905 he joined the staff of the Society for Psychical Research and received his doctorate from William Penn College in 1918. In his career he would investigate such noted psychics as Eusapia Palladino, Ester Cox, and the famous Margery the Medium ; whom in 1924 he sat on the Scientific America committee, alongside Harry Houdini, to investigate her claims of psychic abilities.
Carrington would publish over 100 books, with this short monograph having first seen print in 1920. While the title gives the Ouija Board top billing, in fact this article is approximately 90% about automatic writing, though the two are very closely related topics. While Carrington worked as a psychic researcher, he was not the skeptic one would expect. He was much more gullible with Margery the Medium and, like this book, would end up writing extensively on what he considered to be legitimate subjects and how to use, or develop, ones psychic abilities.