levitations

'levitations' and 'elongations' of the person, and Mr. Home delighted to put red-hot coals on the heads of his friends.

Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

Houdini exposed the mediums' table levitations and other supposed spiritual effects as merely good tricks.

American Wizardry Kenneth Silverman 2011

We see Claire Barclay's conundrums; Alex Frost's transformations of consumer packaging; Karla Black's spectral levitations; and a theatre of the absurd tableau by Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

The outward signs of received grace — whether levitations or light — revealed to the other nuns the benefits of employing objects in their devotions that could be seen with the outward eye.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

* The town is named for Joseph of Cupertino, a slow-witted Italian saint known for his levitations.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

The ambiguous miracles on John from Cincinnati -- the sudden cures, the levitations -- convey a millennial air of deliverance but the mood of the show is post-millennial, laden with funk and fatigue and encrusted grudges.

Sand Crabs: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Magicians have been tricking spectators with levitations for the better part of human existence.

Viagra Magic Wonder Advertisement 2006

This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras.

Yale Press Log: 2007

This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras.

Spine-tingling books from YUP 2007

Naturally enough his miracles and above all the reports of his supernatural levitations attracted countless curious visitors.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, confessor Argent 2006