字幕列表 影片播放 列印所有字幕 列印翻譯字幕 列印英文字幕 How did Ouija become so... overrated? 通靈板是怎麼......被過譽的? It was gonna spell "Overrated". 現在要來拼出「過譽」 Ouija is not overrated just because the board's powers aren't real. 通靈板被過譽不只是因為板子的力量是假的 We know it's powered by the psychological ideomotor effect — a type of subconscious 通靈板靠著意念動作效應運作 — movement that guides the responses. 一種潛意識引導反應的運動 But that doesn't explain why this kinda crappy board is such a big part of our lives 但這不能解釋為什麼這種糟糕的板子會成為我們生活的一部分 and why Ouija and Ouija ripoffs are what you see over and over again in TV and movies. 而為什麼通靈板和通靈板騙局會常常出現在電視節目或電影中 Really. 真的 Bad. 很爛的 Movies. 電影 “I found a Ouija board here. 「我在這裡發現通靈板。 We're gonna play it tonight.” 我們今天來玩吧。」 OK, but the real shock is that this piece of cardboard has a story that spans two centuries OK,但令人震驚的是這塊板子的淵源橫跨了兩個世紀 and actually says something about our history and our culture. 而且與我們的歷史文化很有關係 “There is no Death! What seems so is transition; 「死亡並不存在!看似結束卻只是過渡期; this life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the Life Elysian 在人間的生活只是在天堂的邊境 Whose portal we call Death.” 天堂的入口我們稱為死亡。」 That's from Longfellow. 以上來自 Longfellow The same legendary poet who wrote about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. 曾寫過關於 Paul Revere 夜駛的傳奇詩人 (在戰役前夜警告殖民地民兵英軍即將來襲) In the 1800s, spiritualism and Americanism were intertwined in weird ways. 1800 年代,唯心論和美國主義以奇怪的方式被扭曲了 Though what we call spiritualism started in the early to mid 1800s in Europe — seances, 唯心論發展於 1800 初到中期的歐洲 — 降靈會、 ghost stuff, etc — it really picked up in the US in the 1850s and 1860s. 靈異之類的 — 到 1850 和 1860 年代,才開始風行於美國 The Civil War caused around a million casualties. 南北戰爭導致了近一百萬人的傷亡 But more broadly, death was a constant. 但概括來說,死亡是稀鬆平常的事 This chart shows life expectancy from 1850 to 1910. 這個圖表是 1850 至 1910 年的生命週期 That jump in the chart? 有看到圖表中的幅度飆升嗎? That's from 40 to just 50 years old. 這是 40 至 50 歲的區間 One response to that presence of death? 反映出死亡存在? Hundreds of spiritualism newspapers like Banner of Light. 許多的唯心論報紙像 Banner of Light It even had a column filled with messages that claimed to be from the spirit world beyond. 甚至有專欄充斥著宣稱來自靈界的訊息 Ooh, this guy says he was a rumseller. 喔,這個男的說他是個古怪的賣家 That sounds fun. 聽起來很有趣 This spiritual fixation endured. 這個靈界風潮持續著 That Longfellow poem was the epigraph to a hit book in 1891 - the bestselling “There Longfellow 題詞的詩收錄在 1891 年的暢銷書 - Is No Death.” 「死亡並不存在」 So where does Ouija fit in? 所以通靈板的作用在? For that, you have to go to the patent office. 首先,你要先去申請專利 These are all talking board patents from the 1890s and 1900s. 對話板的專利從 1890 到 1900 年代 Oh, this one was French. 喔,這來自法國 This patent from 1891 is the direct ancestor to Ouija. 通靈板的始祖是 1891 年申請到的專利 Fittingly, the game has a murky origin, but Americans Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard 通靈板遊戲起源不明,但是美國的 Elijah Bond 和 Charles Kennard were behind this version. 是幕後推手 It has all of the ingredients: the board with Yes and No, 它具備了必備條件:一塊板子上面寫著「是」和「否」 and a planchette - that's the name for the pointy thing that picks your letters. 和一塊乩板 - 就是那個尖尖的幫你選出字母的東西 There are theories about the name — some say it was for the novelist Ouida — that's 有些關於「通靈板 Ouida 」這個稱呼的研究 — 有些人說是小說家 Ouida — O-U-I-D-A. 拼成 O-U-I-D-A Others claimed the board itself spelled its own name. 其他理論宣稱通靈板拼出了自己的名字 But the most likely explanation is that it was Egyptian sounding, since that's how 但最有可能的解釋是源自埃及的意象 it was marketed and explained on that first patent. 這也是首次專利行銷得到的解釋 The next year, entrepreneur William Fuld patented his own talking board. 下一年,企業家 William Fuld 為他的對話板申請專利 But Ouija was the brand that took off - so Fuld and company bought it. 但 Ouija 品牌佔領了市場 - 所以 Fuld 及公司將它買下 The spirits pointed to profit. 阿飄會向錢看 He fended off tons of competitors — including his own family members — and built a name. 他擊敗了無數的競爭者 — 包含家族成員 — 樹立名聲 He had legal backing, like this 1915 patent, as Ouija took off. 他有合法的靠山,像是 1915 年的專利,當 Ouija 紅了 The spirit world finally had what had eluded it in life: a solid brand identity. 靈界終於得到了被隱匿已久的:一個穩固的品牌身分 When the Washington Times did a puff article on mental trouble in DC, they didn't mention 當華盛頓時報在 DC 以浮誇的標題報導精神問題 “talking boards” - they mentioned “Ouija". 他們提到的不是「對話板」- 而是「Ouija」 When Pearl Curran claimed to have written novels by channeling her Ouija board — Pearl Curran 宣稱曾運用通靈板寫小說 — Wait. 等等 What? 什麼? Yeah, that's what it says. 是的,她就是這麼說的 Alright — She wrote under the name of the spirit she 好吧 — 她以據稱有接觸過的靈魂 allegedly contacted — Patience Worth. Patience Worth 之名寫書 She used Ouija. 她用了通靈板 This brand kept Ouija going through the 20th century, along with Fuld's legal maintenance. 這個品牌讓通靈板在 Fuld 申請的專利下度過了 20 世紀 The spirit world went corporate, further merging pop culture and the occult. 靈界逐漸融合了流行文化和超自然 AH! 啊! Today... 現今 ...... Today, Ouija is a little horror, a little kitsch, and a little fun. 現今,通靈板有點可怕、有點粗糙、也有點有趣 There have been corporate shifts, but the board is a staple, which is a pretty impressive 通靈板設計有經過改變,但還是以板子為主原料 journey for a simple image and a piece of plastic. 以一塊塑膠板打造簡約形象是很令人印象深刻的歷程 That journey was powered by the beliefs of people like Longfellow and the mysterious 信徒像 Longfellow 和美國專利組織的神秘勢力 forces of the United States patent system. 對通靈板的推行發揮影響力 And we are being spoken to, in a way, by people from the past. 而我們就這樣世世代代口耳相傳 Not through messages from the spirit realm, but through the history of a decorated piece 不是來自靈界的訊息,而是這塊經過妝點後 of cardboard. 的板子 Ouija might be overrated, and it's not real. 通靈板可能被過譽了,它的力量不是真的 But it might be saying something, too. 但它也訴說了一些故事 There are many great Ouija stories out there. 有很多關於通靈板的精彩故事 One of my favorites is that in 1921, William Fuld was forced to admit Ouija was a children's 我最喜歡的是在 1921 年,William Fuld 被迫承認通靈板只是小孩的 toy. 玩具 The reason? 理由是? Tax purposes. 徵稅
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