"Automatic writing is a curse!"  From Fate Magazine, 1949.

John Armstrong Chaloner (born Chanler) called his form of automatic writing "the X-faculty."  From The Duluth Herald, 1901.  See The Pencil Witch.

"Leonore Piper—the psychic.  Unconscious ... her head buried in a pillow ... her hand clutching a pencil."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.

The author Elizabeth Herrick at her Ouija Board.  From Cosmopolitan, 1922.

Angelic and demonic influence during spirit writing, in From Matter to Spirit by C. D., 1863.

We know what you're thinking, but this title isn't referring to how Twitter is mostly populated by bots.  It's actually about Ouija communications, automatic writing, and the like.  By Hester Travers Smith, 1919.

Here's a precursor to Twitter bots.  Voices from the Void: Six Years' Experience in Automatic Communications by Hester Travers Smith, 1919.

Here's a page from Seance Parlor Feng Shui, a book that the renowned philosopher of magic Robert E. Neale (author of The Sense of Wonder) believes to contain no less than the secret to world peace.  Feng shui, an ancient study of utilizing spaces, is all-too-often neglected by masters of occult ceremonies.  Collected in this book are séance parlor arrangements proven so wildly successful that entire books have been dedicated to analyzing the wonderment they generated.  The book deals only with designs that have earned widespread fame.  The blueprints here represent such minute attention to detail, such focused intention on powerful results, that quietly meditating upon them as works of art reveals them to be sacrosanct.  Say what you will as a believer or a skeptic; the séance rooms of Spiritualism reveal intelligent design.