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  2. Mediumship - Wikipedia

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    Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums".

  3. Levitation (paranormal) - Wikipedia

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    Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical means.. While believed in some religious and New Age communities to occur due to supernatural, miraculous, psychic, or "energetic" phenomena, there is no scientific evidence of levitation occurring.

  4. Ectoplasm (paranormal) - Wikipedia

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    Danish medium Einer Nielsen was investigated by a committee from the Kristiania University in Norway in 1922 and it was discovered in a séance that his ectoplasm was fake. [37] He was also caught hiding ectoplasm in his rectum. [38] Mina Crandon was a famous medium known for producing ectoplasm during her séance sittings. She produced a small ...

  5. Spirit possession - Wikipedia

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    They envy humans for their physical body, and try to gain control of it. When they assault a human, they would intrude their mind, trying to displace the human spirit. The human's mind would adapt to the passions of anger, violence, irrationality and greed, the intruding demon is composed of.

  6. List of psychic abilities - Wikipedia

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    Petrification — The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye. Phytokinesis — The ability to control plants with one's mind. [citation needed] Prophecy (also prediction, premonition, or prognostication) — the ability to foretell events without using induction or deduction from known facts. [7]

  7. The Book on Mediums - Wikipedia

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    The Book on Mediums or Mediums and Evokers' Handbook (a.k.a.The Mediums' Book —Le Livre des Médiums, in French), is a book by Allan Kardec published in 1861, second of the five Fundamental Works of Spiritism — the philosophy Kardec had been publishing — being the tome in which the experimental and investigative features of the doctrine were presented, explained and taught.

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    The Globe of Steel is also informally considered one of the 10 most dangerous circus acts, along with fire breathing and sword swallowing. Eguino knows of riders from Brazil and Colombia who have ...

  9. Spirit (supernatural entity) - Wikipedia

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    Sylphs are of air; undines, water; gnomes, earth; salamanders, fire. The air is full of an innumerable multitude of peoples [Sylphs] of human figure, a little proud in appearance, but docile indeed: great lovers of the sciences, subtle, officious to the wise, and enemies of the foolish and ignorant.