Definition of Table lifting

1. Noun. Manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits.

Exact synonyms: Table Tilting, Table Tipping, Table Turning
Generic synonyms: Parapsychology, Psychic Phenomena, Psychic Phenomenon
Group relationships: Seance, Session, Sitting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Table Lifting

table-tennis table
table apple
table board
table cloth
table d'hote
table d'hôte
table dancer
table dances
table decoration
table football
table game
table knife
table lamp
table lamps
table lifting (current term)
table linen
table manners
table mat
table mountain
table mountains
table mustard
table napkin
table of contents
table rapping
table salt
table saw
table saws
table service

Literary usage of Table lifting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena by Chung Ling Soo, William E. Robinson (1898)
"CHAPTER V. table lifting AND SPIRIT RAPPING. So much has been heard about table tipping and floating tables, it will, I think, prove interesting to explain ..."

2. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1907)
"... AND TABLE - LIFTING PROBABLY no phenomena are more intimately connected, in the public mind, with the spiritistic movement than those of table-turning ..."

3. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism: Being a Brief Account of the Most by Hereward Carrington (1920)
"... in the public mind, with the spiritistic movement than those of table-turning and table-lifting. The reason for this is not, I think, hard to find. ..."

4. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1908)
"... in the public mind, with the spiritistic movement than those of table-turning and table-lifting. The reason for this is not, I think, hard to find. ..."

5. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1920)
"... in the public mind, with the spiritistic movement than those of table-turning and table-lifting. The reason for this is not, I think, hard to fmd. ..."

6. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1920)
"... in the public mind, with the spiritistic movement than those of table-turning and table-lifting. The reason for this is not, I think, hard to find. ..."

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