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Encyclopedia Britannica



PHYSICAL PHENOMENA

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 548 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHYSICAL PHENOMENA , in the terminology of
spiritualism
  and psychical research, molar or molecular phenomena in the
physical
  world not traceable to
ordinary
  causes and referred to the action of spirits or of mediums in abnormal psychical states. Among the phenomena or alleged phenomena are: materialization, levitation or elongation of the medium; passage of matter through matter, alteration of
weight
  in a
balance
 , tying of knots in an endless cord, apports (objects brought from a distance) and movements of objects (telekinesis); the production of writing, imprints of plaster or other objects; raps, voices and other sounds, including music; spirit photographs; lights and perfumes. To these may be added immunity against the effects of fire and
the untying of
ropes
 .
Analogous phenomena are found in many parts of the world (see POLTERGEIST; FIREWALKING); spectral lights are associated with the tombs of
Mahommedan
  saints, with Buddhist shrines, with religious revivals, with Red Indian and other magicians, &c., and as sporadic phenomena in the Highlands and Norway. Levitation is asserted of Australian wizards, the rope-
trick
  of Eskimo angekoks; glyphs and direct writing are found in Mexican and Tibetan cults.
See F. Podmore, Modern
Spiritualism
 ; F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality, ii. 506;
Journal
  S. P. R., vi. 309 sq. (N. W. T.)


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