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Definition of Table tilting
1. Noun. Manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits.
Generic synonyms: Parapsychology, Psychic Phenomena, Psychic Phenomenon
Group relationships: Seance, Session, Sitting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Table Tilting
Literary usage of Table tilting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"And here, I think, we have attained to a conception of the mysterious and
much-derided phenomenon of "table-tilting" which enables us to correlate it with ..."
2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"But beyond the simple movements—or table-turning—and the intelligible responses—or
table-tilting—both of which are at least ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Then the Table-tilting came up. It was found that the table would tilt in ...
The table-tilting first developed itself in Bath, under the guidance of some ..."
4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"And here, I think, we have attained to a conception of the mysterious and
much-derided phenomenon of "table-tilting" which enables us to correlate it with ..."
5. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"But beyond the simple movements—or table-turning—and the intelligible responses—or
table-tilting—both of which are at least ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Then the Table-tilting came up. It was found that the table would tilt in ...
The table-tilting first developed itself in Bath, under the guidance of some ..."