Word: mediumship
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...those locals who are engaged in "the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or reading the past, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, sticks, dice, coffee grounds, crystal gazing or other such reading, or through mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy or other craft, art, science, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, or by any such similar thing...
...mediums King consulted in Britain and the U.S., and said that King stood 53 high in spiritualist circles in both countries that he once served as an international go-between. An engraved gold watch given by Queen Victoria to a British spiritualist "in acknowledgment of benefits received from mediumship" had found its way to the U.S. Mackenzie King was chosen as the intermediary to return the watch to England, where it was turned over to the London Spiritualist Alliance...
...trying her hand at automatic writing. What she put down seemed of such profound import that Yeats pressed her to continue the experiment. For over two years thereafter he was busy filling notebooks with what certain self-styled "instructors," writing or speaking through his wife's mediumship, had to tell him. When he finally pieced his notes together into A Vision,* Yeats felt satisfied that he had got hold of something that, grasped fully, would "explain the world...
...afraid Dr. Rhine and I can never get together," said Margery. "He came to my house once, some years ago, and after a single sitting denounced my mediumship. Dr. Rhine has made thought transference so complicated that it is now impossible to figure out what he has or has not done. People are beginning to confuse his experiments with the Einstein theory. This is a smart move on Dr. Rhine's part...
Houdini was witness to one of the exhibitions of mediumship. Having fastened Margery in a box with only her head and arms free, Houdini felt along her arm with his own hand until it had passed through the hole in the box. Then the voice of Walter, the spirit, intervened. "What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet...