Elijah Jefferson Bond (January 23, 1847 - April 14, 1921) was an American lawyer and inventor, best remembered for inventing the Ouija board in its current form (1890). The company which produced these boards was named The Swastika Novelty Company, and had a Swastika as part of its logo.
In those days, the swastika was considered a ‘good luck’ symbol and appeared in Boy Scouts of America and US Military insignia, among other things.
Then that malevolent bastard Hitler came along ...