levitation

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In this affair evidence was led to prove a story as common as that of 'levitation'--namely, the mysterious throwing or falling of stones in a haunted house, or around the person of a patient bewitched.

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  1. The act of making light; lightness; buoyancy. The lungs also of birds, as compared with the lungs of quadrupeds, contain in them a provision distinguishingly calculated for this same purpose of levitation. Paley, Nat. Theol., xii. § 6.
  2. Among Spiritualists, the alleged phenomenon of bodies heavier than air being by spiritual means rendered buoyant in the atmosphere. The levitation in this case was by the bound Shaman in one lodge being found unbound in the other. Science, XI. 270.

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  • She has been a snotty but well-intentioned fourth-floor librarian in an episode about an epidemic of food-poisoning that triggered bouts of invisibility and/or levitation, and she was also a lovelorn, suicidal Bear Cult priestess in the episode where Prince Wing discovered his mother was one of the Forbidden Books. —  FSF,September2005
  • He continually disrupted those in his community with his gift of levitation - flying around during Mass and at other inappropriate times and also going into ecstasy quite unexpectedly. —  Catholic Fire
  • When I saw that levitation, I was incredibly skeptical, I mean there's a lot of stuff I want to believe, like the concept of Chi and inner power etc, especially as it seems consistent throughout history, even today. —  Cubed3.com News
  • However I bet that if that "levitation" ocurred in modern times, it would be posted around the internet, and the hoax would be debunked within days. —  Cubed3.com News
  • It all revolves around fringe science; a new branch of science dealing with mind reading, levitation, invisibility, and even reanimation of the dead. —  Stupid Evil Bastard
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