1. The instructions called it a planchette.

2. I grabbed the planchette myself and tried to push it around, but it was fixed to the board.

3. The witch doctor is practicing planchette writing to tell one's fortune.

4. Around one thirty in the morning, the planchette suddenly froze in Mary's hand. It wouldn't move, no matter how much we pushed and pulled.

5. After lights-out we'd all get up and play with this planchette thing.

6. I gasped and tried to pull my fingers from the planchette, but they were stuck.

7. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the coach from the Pewter Platter, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette , and made a trip to Montfermeil.