The two younger sisters convinced the older sister and others that they were communicating via seance’, with spirits, via “rappings”. The Rise of Spiritualism and Spirit Communication (according to common folklore, history, and beliefs)Īccording to common folklore and belief, Leah, Margaretta, and Catherine Fox, from New York, played an important role in the “creation” of spiritualism, as we know it today. The magician is thought to gain authority among the spirits only by purity, worship and personal devotion and study. * It’s interesting to know that in commercialized grimoires book of magic spells and invocations it says that evocation includes elements of ‘ diabolism‘ and one ( The Grand Grimoire) even offers a method for making a pact with the devil, in general the art of evocation of spirits is said to be done entirely under the power of the divine. Comparable practices exist in many religions and magical traditions and may employ the use of mind-altering substances with and without uttered word formulas. Necromancy/ the conjuration of the spirits of the “dead” (demons)… to communicate with them.Ī combining form meaning “divination,” of the kind specified by the initial element: necromancy.Įvocation/ is the act of calling upon or summoning a spirit, demon, deity or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition. In modern English usage, participants need not be seated while engaged in a séance. In English, however, the word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people who are gathered to receive messages from ghosts or to listen to a spirit medium discourse with or relay messages from spirits.
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In French, the word’s meaning is quite general: one may, for example, speak of “ une séance de cinéma ” (“a movie session”). The word “ séance ” comes from the French word for “session”, from the Old French seoir, “to sit”. ɑː n s / ) is an attempt to communicate with spirits.
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