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Table turning   /tˈeɪbəl tˈərnɪŋ/   Listen
Table turning

noun
1.
Manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits.  Synonyms: table lifting, table tilting, table tipping.






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"Table turning" Quotes from Famous Books



... your planchette come yet, Mr Georgie? I shall be most anxious to know what it writes, so if you've got an evening free any night soon just come round for a bit of dinner, and we'll make an evening of it, with table turning and planchette and palmistry. Now tell me all about the seance the first night. I wish I could have been present at a real seance, but of course Mrs Quantock can't find room for everybody, and I'm sure it was most kind of her ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson

... with, the cheerful heart of my old literary master, and partly in instinctive terror lest, wherever he is in celestial circles, he should catch me writing bad grammar, or putting wrong stops, and should set the table turning, or the like. For he was inexorable in such matters, and many a sentence in "Modern Painters," which I had thought quite beautifully turned out after a forenoon's work on it, had to be turned outside-in, after all, and cut into the smallest pieces and sewn ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Table turning" :   seance, sitting, session, psychic phenomenon, parapsychology, psychic phenomena



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