Katherine G. Schmidt is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Molloy University, USA. She is the author of Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020).

• 1.Introduction 2. “A History of Ouija: Myths and Misconceptions” 3. “Ouija Rhetoricity” 4. “Spirited Play: The Ouija Board and Gamification” 5. “Examining the Ouija Heebie-Jeebies: A Material Culture Analysis of Ouija Board Goods” 6. “Teens and Fear/Fearing Teens: Images of Ouija in Young Adult Literature” 7. “I Hope You Got This on Camera: Ouija Boards in Film” 8. “Secrets, Satan, and Slaughter: Protestant Responses to Ouija Boards During the Satanic Panic” 9. “US Catholicism and Ouija” 10. Epilogue: “I Do Not Claim Any Negative Energy”

Katherine G. Schmidt is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Molloy University, USA. She is the author of Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020).

• 1.Introduction 2. “A History of Ouija: Myths and Misconceptions” 3. “Ouija Rhetoricity” 4. “Spirited Play: The Ouija Board and Gamification” 5. “Examining the Ouija Heebie-Jeebies: A Material Culture Analysis of Ouija Board Goods” 6. “Teens and Fear/Fearing Teens: Images of Ouija in Young Adult Literature” 7. “I Hope You Got This on Camera: Ouija Boards in Film” 8. “Secrets, Satan, and Slaughter: Protestant Responses to Ouija Boards During the Satanic Panic” 9. “US Catholicism and Ouija” 10. Epilogue: “I Do Not Claim Any Negative Energy”

Katherine G. Schmidt is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Molloy University, USA. She is the author of Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020).

• 1.Introduction 2. “A History of Ouija: Myths and Misconceptions” 3. “Ouija Rhetoricity” 4. “Spirited Play: The Ouija Board and Gamification” 5. “Examining the Ouija Heebie-Jeebies: A Material Culture Analysis of Ouija Board Goods” 6. “Teens and Fear/Fearing Teens: Images of Ouija in Young Adult Literature” 7. “I Hope You Got This on Camera: Ouija Boards in Film” 8. “Secrets, Satan, and Slaughter: Protestant Responses to Ouija Boards During the Satanic Panic” 9. “US Catholicism and Ouija” 10. Epilogue: “I Do Not Claim Any Negative Energy”