We love finding Ouija boards referenced in old yearbooks.  And check out how they charmingly spelled superstitious:

If

Were you a mystic spirit,
And I a ouija board,
   We'd kick up such a rumpus
   That the mediums would pump us
Of occult news and smear it
On the superstitutious [sic] horde;
Were you a mystic spirit,
And I a ouija board.

From Mansfield State Normal School's Semaphore, 1921.  See also our guide to the Care and Feeding of a Spirit Board.  In the words of the celebrated magician Eugene Burger, "what a lovely and strange book it is!"

See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board. 

From the Agnes Scott Institute's Aurora yearbook, 1897.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From the Epitome yearbook of Lehigh University, 1896.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a page from How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook on the power of anagrams.  But to be clear, we don't condone antipathy.  As the old idiom goes, "Kill 'em with kindness."

Here's how to make any page the 13th, from the hot potato that is How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook, our guidebook to using the occult powers of any yearbook for payback, creative visualization, and peace of mind.

Here's how to invert any yearbook photo without using a blade, from How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook, our controversial exploration of how college annuals are profoundly occult objects.

In honor of the phenomenon that is Floating Head Friday, here's a page from our latest project, How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook, which explores exactly why college annuals are chock full of severed heads, skulls, cauldrons, black cats, and devilish figures.

You've seen the cliché of a frustrated writer tossing away page after crumpled page, but here's one tossing the ink, too.  From Colorado College Nugget yearbook, 1909.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From the Halcyon yearbook of Swarthmore College, 1895.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

You've heard of "bubbling humor," but here's where it all happens.  From The Black and Gold yearbook of Richard J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1925.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Which weighs more: an owl or a jester's marotte?  We find the answer in Hampden-Sydney College's Kaleidoscope yearbook, 1919.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's the macabre genie of knowledge (???) from The Booster, yearbook of the Morristown High School (Indiana, 1917).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From the Kaleidoscope yearbook of Hampden-Sydney College, 1910.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

Here's a precursor to the 1927 film It, with Clara Bow as the "it girl."  Our illustration is by L. Hurley for The Echo yearbook of Greensboro College, 1921.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

From Kaleidoscope yearbook of Hampden-Sydney College, 1910.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

The phenomenon of people holding up individual letters of a word and kerfuffling goes way back, apparently. This example is from 1910, in the Hampden-Sydney College Kaleidoscope yearbook.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)