table-turning

noun

the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top

often derogatory spiritualism in general

Words nearby table-turning

table tennis, table tripod, table wine, table-hop, table-rapping, table-turning, tableau, tableau curtain, tableau vivant, tablecloth, tableful

Example sentences from the Web for table-turning

It is, according to my experience, much rarer and more difficult to produce than table-turning.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung
She then usually stopped the table-turning and after a short time passed more or less suddenly into an ecstatic state.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung
Then, all of a sudden, the moorland villages round were overtaken by an epidemic of spirit-rapping and table-turning.

The History of David Grieve |Mrs. Humphry Ward
Bouvard in this way learned about the new fashion of table-turning.

Bouvard and Pcuchet |Gustave Flaubert

Table-turning is another half-way house between the parlour trick and the full-blown occult.

Spiritualism and the New Psychology |Millais Culpin

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table-turning

noun

Words nearby table-turning

Example sentences from the Web for table-turning