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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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