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poltergeist
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poltergeist (pōl`tərgīst) [Ger.,=knocking ghost], in spiritism spiritism or spiritualism, belief that the human personality continues to exist after death and can communicate with the living through the agency of a medium or psychic.
..... Click the link for more information. , certain phenomena, such as rapping, movement of furniture, and breaking of crockery, for which there is no apparent scientific explanation. Believers in spiritism interpret these phenomena, particularly common during séances, as evidence of the presence of supernatural spirits.
poltergeist
a spirit believed to manifest its presence by rappings and other noises and also by acts of mischief, such as throwing furniture about


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Writers and ghost hunters, Mike Hallowell and Darren Ritson, will be giving a talk about The Poltergeist Phenomenon, at the Wednesday Heritage Club, in South Shields Central Library Theatre, at 2pm, on June 11.
Ghostly talk by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
The folklorist, however, recognizes in the poltergeist phenomenon something that contains surprisingly more than meets the eye.
Poltergeists - a phenomenon worthy of serious study by Bynum, Joyce / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
 
 
 
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