Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sleight-of-hand trick, regarded by the credulous, in spite of repetition and of exposure, as due to a mediumistic gift whereby communication may be had with the spirits of the dead.
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Such methods for learning the truth as slate-writing, ouija-boards, mind-reading, spiritualistic séances, crystal-gazing, and the like, are taboo.
Archive 2007-02-01 Douglas Wolk 2007
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Such methods for learning the truth as slate-writing, ouija-boards, mind-reading, spiritualistic séances, crystal-gazing, and the like, are taboo.
Week 42: Doing Donuts on Free Lunch Drive Douglas Wolk 2007
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Richard Hodgson, after exposing the conjuring tricks of the slate-writing medium Eglinton, wrote a thorough study of “The Possibilities of Mal-observation and Lapse of Memory.”
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Richard Hodgson, after exposing the conjuring tricks of the slate-writing medium Eglinton, wrote a thorough study of “The Possibilities of Mal-observation and Lapse of Memory.”
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Richard Hodgson, after exposing the conjuring tricks of the slate-writing medium Eglinton, wrote a thorough study of “The Possibilities of Mal-observation and Lapse of Memory.”
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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But at the end, when the lights were turned up, it was announced that the “spirits” complained of an unsympathetic presence in the circle; and after some hocus-pocus with slate-writing, etc., she, Mary, was designated and asked to withdraw.
The Way Home 2003
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Of the members composing that Commission but one is now surviving, Dr. Calvin B. Knerr, who contributed an interesting report on the slate-writing medium, Mrs. Patterson.
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission
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Mr. Sellers: You may, however, be able to explain to me a very remarkable slate-writing experiment which Kellar has performed.
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission
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The instructions which I received from Caffray were to keep these slates carefully in the dark, and every evening at about the same hour to sit in total darkness, with my hands resting on them for about a half or three-quarters of an hour; to maintain a calm, equable, passive state of mind, even to think of any indifferent subject rather than to concentrate my thoughts too intently on the slate-writing.
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission
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These communications had come through a slate-writing Medium by the name of Patterson, and were received by two gentlemen whose names I am not at liberty to mention, but whom I will call A. and B.
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission
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