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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
In table-turning participants sit with hands on a table and wait for it to rotate or tilt, supposedly to communicate with spirits. Scientists and sceptics attribute it to the ideomotor effect or conscious trickery.
How it works
The alphabet was spoken aloud and the table tilted at a letter, spelling words.
At a glance
- Also called
- Table-tipping, Table-tilting
- Traditions
- Spiritualism
- Regions
- Europe, Americas
- You need
- Nothing
- Price
- Free