My view on Ouija Boards is kind of mixed... I don't think you can go out and buy a Ouija board and contact the dead spirt of your old Grandmother's pet dog, or something like that, then have them freak your friends out. Something that mass produced this in this moden day, without better terms, magical in anyway. Items of magical/spirtiual use is useally made personally, or made by someone as a gift... in wiccan and druidist religions, if the item is made from the earth, it has a higher magical connection with the earth. But a Parker Brothers Ouija board isn't... now a board made in the 1900's or pre, something handmade, not as a gag gift but as a real item used to contact spirts... with something decated to be used in any way magical or spirtiual can have weird effects from being used improperly. I'm not religious in any way, but I respect the religions deep rooted in magic, magick, or rituals... not cults, but old religions that have long histories of spirtality and rituals.
I don't beleive the stories friends tell, they are all passed around so much most of the orginal story is "she said, he said" shit. Tho, if I got to float around as a spirt, I'd drop in on teenages using a Ouija board and scare the shit of them
. But that's just me. The mind can do alot of things that we don't know about, but it's really the person sitting beside you moving the little triangle.