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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