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    Table-turning (also known as table-tapping, table-tipping or table-tilting) is a type of séance in which participants sit around a table, place their hands...
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  • "Turning Tables" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Adele for her second studio album, 21 (2011). Conceived after an altercation with her...
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  • tables in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Turning the Tables may refer to: Turning the Tables (history book), by Andrew P. Haley Turning the Tables:...
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    After observing table-turning, a kind of seance, he was intrigued that the tables seemed to move despite lacking muscles and that they tables seemed to provide...
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    techniques for communicating, ostensibly, with the spirit world including table-turning and planchette writing boards (the precursor to later Ouija boards)...
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    hypothesized by Count Agenor de Gasparin, to explain the phenomena of table turning and tapping during séances. Ectenic force was named by de Gasparin's...
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    the tricks of fraudulent mediums such as those used in slate-writing, table-turning, trumpet mediumship, materializations, sealed-letter reading and spirit...
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  • Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920 is a 2011 book by Andrew P. Haley, an assistant professor of American...
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    Michael Faraday first described this effect in 1853, while investigating table-turning. Various studies have been conducted, recreating the effects of the...
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    Faraday also weighed in negatively on the public's fascination with table-turning, mesmerism, and seances, and in so doing chastised both the public and...
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