premonition, paranormal ,vocabulary from A Shady Plot

1. Vocabulary

3. Poltergeist
-a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by
noises, knockings, etc.

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5. clairvoyance
The supposed power to see objects or events that
cannot be perceived by the
senses, Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness

7. Crystal Ball
A globe of quartz crystal or glass in which images,
especially those believed to
portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune
tellers

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9. eerie
Causing inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness;
strange and frightening

11. Mediumship is defined as the practice of certain people
—known as mediums—to mediate communication
between spirits of the dead and other human
beings. While no evidence has been accepted by the
scientific community in support of the view that there has
been communication between the living and the dead,
some parapsychologists say that some of their research
suggests that such communication may have taken place.
The practice is associated with several religious belief
systems such as spiritualism , voodoo, spiritism,
Espiritismo etc.

12. From left to right: Madam Helena
Blavatsky, Daniel Dunglas Home, and
Jeane Dixon.
Some famous psychics

13. Nostradamas: Born Michel de Nostredame in 1503,
Nostradamas was an apothecary who had hundreds of
visions of the future. He recorded his prophecies and
catalogued more than 6,000 of them. His collected
prophecies, titled Les Prophecies, have rarely been out
of print since they were first published in 1555. During
his lifetime he endured public scorn and hatred --
many people believed his predictions to be the work
of the devil -- but several famous figures of the day,
including Catherine Medici of the powerful Florentine
family the Medicis, were supporters.

14. Madam Helena Blavatsky: Blavatsky was a major
player in the 19th century spiritualist movement.
Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society, which
fused mysticism and spiritualism. She also claimed to
have psychic powers, and regularly held seances to
communicate with the dead. Blavatsky established a
Theosophical center in Madras, India, that still stands
today, and many of her ideas influenced later
spiritualist movements -- including our current day
New Age cultural practices.
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15. Daniel Dunglas Home: A contemporary of Madam
Blavatsky, Home was renowned for his ability to
psychically move furniture, call up noises and spirits,
and levitate. Just 18 when his career as a psychic
began, Home's talents were notable because he could
channel spirits through his body (both verbally and in
a trance-like state), and also predict the future and
reveal secrets from the past. Word of his talents
spread across Europe, and he was called to hold
séances for both Napoleon III and Queen Sophia of
the Netherlands.

16. Edgar Cayce: Born in 1877, Cayce was known as "The
Sleeping Prophet," because many of his prophecies
would come to him as dreams. He would enter a sleep
state and not recall what he'd said or done while in it.
Cayce himself was skeptical of his own abilities, and
recommended that seekers only take into account
advice that would improve their lives. He also
purportedly helped heal the sick (One famous story
involves a woman who was charged with having
hysteria. Cayce was able to divine that she actually
had a rotting tooth that was causing her pain -- and if
removed, her symptoms would abate. They did).

17. Jeane Dixon: Jeane Dixon was the stage name of
Lydia Emma Pinckert, a well-known astrologer and
psychic who famously predicted the assasination of
John F. Kennedy seven years before it occurred.
Dixon's predictions and prognostications were
followed by several notable figures, including Richard
Nixon and Nancy Reagan. Her horoscopes were
widely published and syndicated in newspapers across
the country before her death in 1997.

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19. Transmigration -the passage of a soul after death into
another body; metempsychosis
The passing of souls into successive bodily forms, either
human or animal. According to Pythagoras, who probably
learned the doctrine in Egypt, the rational mind , after
having been freed from the chains of the body, assumes an
ethereal vehicle, and passes into the region of the dead,
where it remains till it is sent back to this world to inhabit
some other body, human or animal. After undergoing
successive purgations, and when it is sufficiently purified,
it is received among the gods, and returns to the eternal
source from which it first proceeded. This doctrine was
foreign to Judaism until about the eighth century,when,
under the influence of the Mohammedan mystics, it was
adopted by the Karaites and other Jewish dissenters.

21. psychic
a person who claims to have an ability to perceive
information hidden from the normal sensesthrough
extrasensory perception (ESP), or who is said by
others to have such abilities

23.  Ouija Board
The term "talking board" is the generic name for a message
board with numbers, letters, and a movable message
indicator. The message indicator, touched lightly by one
or more persons, slides or pivots along the surface of the
board to spell out words. Hence, the name "talking board."
There is debate about whether the messages come from
supernatural entities or are some form of psychological
phenomenon originating from the players. Boards using
pendulums, fixed spinners, or rolling balls, are not
technically "talking boards" although they may have the
same effect. Talking boards are also referred to as Ouija
boards, witch boards, spirit boards, oracle boards, and most
recently, channeling boards. The name "Ouija" is a
registered trademark for Parker Brothers' William Fuld
Talking Board Set.

25. Exorcist
In some religions, an exorcist is a person who is
believed to be able to cast out the devil or other
demons. A priest, a nun, a monk, a healer,
a shaman or other specially prepared or instructed
person can be an exorcist. An exorcist is a person who
performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural
beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or
(sometimes) a building or even an object

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27. premonition
a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future
event;presentiment: He had a vague premonition of
danger.
2.a forewarning

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29. paranormal
Paranormal is a general term (coined ca. 1915–1920)
that designates
experiences that lie outside "the range of normal
experience or scientific
explanation"

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31. Tarot card
The Tarot is a deck of cards that originated over 500
years ago in northern Italy. Although the Tarot was
first used in a game calledTriumphs, it was quickly
adopted as a tool for divination, and popularized by
occult societies such as the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn. The early Tarot symbolism was deeply
rooted in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, but over
the centuries it has grown to incorporate everything
from Astrology and Kabbalah toRunes (which predate
the Tarot by 1000 years) and the I Ching(which
predates the Tarot by 2500 years). Today, the Tarot is
far and away the most popular tool for spiritual
introspection in the West

33. vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who
subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the
form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of
whether they are undead or a living person/being

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