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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"poltergeist"”.
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Human levitation
… demonic spiritual entities, those subjected to poltergeist activity, Spiritualism, people who believe they have been abducted by aliens, martial arts such as qigong and mysticism. These anecdotal reports generally describe levitation as rare, spontaneous and involuntary, although some people …
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Gentille Alouette, Short Fiction, and Selections: A Draft: Chapters of a Novel in Progress
… Alouette, follows a sixteen-year-old female poltergeist named Alouette Tansy as she navigates her complicated relationship with her mother, Rhododendron “Rho” Tansy. Alouette is a violent entity, born out of her mother’s long simmering and manifested angry after Rho witnesses a catastrophic …
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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
… analysis of The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982), THIR13EN Ghosts (2001), and The Amityville Horror (2005), I argue that an intersectional, necropolitical lens sheds light on the ways systems of violence, death, and memory operate in the American context of the horror film. …
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Feral objects and acts of domestic piracy: sculpture, secular magic, and strategies of feminist disruption
… corporeal feminism (Meskimmon, 2019). I analyse poltergeist phenomena as ‘secular magic’, the sleight-of-hand of conjuring (During, 2002), proposing that secular magic materialises feminine domestic disruption as the embodied encounter between (feminine) subject and (domestic) object. I argue …
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Problems in investigating psychokinesis in special subjects
… case considered is a recent set of supposed poltergeist occurrences, the Enfield case, in which the writer participated and witnesses were interviewed and documents examined. It was concluded that the case was spurious and the pressures on all involved are discussed. The fourth case concerns …