Patience Worth, writer from the afterlife

Patience Worth was a writer who made herself known to housewife Pearl Curran via the Ouija board, with dire consequences. What started as an innocent 'game' on a beautiful summer day ended in worldwide fame for Pearl.

In the summer of 1912, housewife Pearl Curran makes her first acquaintance with the Ouija board. Her neighbour invites her to a session where spirit Patience comes through with the message for the first time:

'Many moons ago I lived, I am coming around again. Patience Worth is my name.'

This introduction through the board is the beginning of a long-standing partnership between Pearl and Patience.

Pearl has whole conversations with Patience. The stories Patience tells are so interesting that Pearl decides to write it all down. Little by little, poems and short stories appear on paper, all transmitted through the Ouija board by the spirit of Patience Worth.

Dialect

When Pearl asks where Patience comes from, the ghost 'tells' Patience that she lived on the south coast of England and later emigrated with her parents to America where she was killed by Indians. This is all Patience is willing to reveal about herself, according to Pearl.

The messages that Patience does pass on consist mainly of prayers, poems and stories. All the texts come through in a seventeenth-century English dialect.

Pearl continues to jot everything down and eventually no longer uses the Ouija board. She sits down with pen and paper, and the texts - which get longer and longer and more elaborate - flow naturally from her pen by way of averages. automatic writing. When she later takes her seat behind the typewriter, the same thing happens.

According to Pearl, these texts too all originate from Patience, who now communicates with her telepathically and dictates all the texts to her via thought transmission. Pearl thus writes six books of stories and hundreds of pages filled with poetry from Patience's name.

Pearl and the ghost of Patience become world-famous, but then something happens that causes tempers to flare. In one of her books (Hope True Blood), Pearl writes on behalf of Patience about developments in England in the nineteenth century.

Given that Patience previously reported being killed by Indians in the 17th century, it is unlikely that she could know a thing or two about this ...

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