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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
- derogatory.spiritualism in general
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That we have to do with a fluid, properly so called, in the phenomena of table turning and lifting I cannot absolutely affirm.
Shocked at Bouvard's scepticism, he invited the two friends to an evening party at table-turning.
Catching sight of Violet standing in front of her toilet-table turning over a box of ribbons, "Oh, how beautiful you are!"
Fergus Derrick was sitting at a table turning over a book of engravings.
True, they joined in the table-turning, but they relished the absurd ineptitudes, the indecent conversation of the mocking spirit.
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