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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``An American Haunting,'' based on a purportedly true occurrence, stars Sissy Spacek as the wife of a man whose home is infested by poltergeists in early-1800s Tennessee. They're dead, so hey, we're ghost, we play dead music, we're poltergeists, we're necromancers. We can even dismiss him as so far away from our own time--this man grew up in a Germany haunted by witches and poltergeists, and threw inkpots at the devil--that we simply cannot understand him at all. |
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