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Table-turning
A form of psychic phenomena in which a table is made to rotate, tilt, or rise completely off the ground by the mere contact of the…
Taigheirm
A magical sacrifice of cats to the infernal spirits, formerly practised in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It is believed to have…
Talisman
An inanimate object which is supposed to possess a supernatural capacity of conferring benefits or powers in contradistinction to the…
Talmud
"Whoever has the telphillin bound to his head and arm, and the tsitsith thrown over his garments, and the mezuza fixed on his door-post, is…
Tannhauser
66 A mediæval German legend which relates how a minstrel and knight of that name, passing by the Hörselberg, or Hill of Venus, entered…
Tatwic Yoga
meaning "The Science of Breath." The title of a little book translated from the Sanscrit some years ago by the Pandit Rama Prasad. The…
Taurabolmin
(See Mithraic Mysteries.) Taxil, Leo: The pseudonum of M. Gabriel Jogaud-Pages, who in his works The Brethren of the Three Points and Are…
Telekinesis
A term denoting the hypothetical faculty of moving material objects by thought alone. The movement of objects without contact-a frequent…
Telepathy
Of the various branches of psychic phenomena there is none which engages more serious attention at the present day than telepathy or…
Tellurism
A name applied by Kieser to Animal Magnetism (q.v.) Temeraire, Charles A.: Duke of Burgundy. He disappeared after the battle of Morat; and…
Templars
The Knights Templars of the Temple of Solomon were a military order, founded by a Burgundian, Hugues de Payns, and Godeffroi de St. Omer, a…
Tempon-teloris-Ship of the Dead
Among the Dayaks of Borneo the Ship of the Dead, the vessel which carries the souls of the departed in search of the hereafter, is…
Tephillin
In the Hebrew tongue means "attachments." They were originally prayer thongs worn by the Jews at morning prayer-one on the left arm and…
Tephramancy
A mode of divination in which use is made of the ashes of the fire which had consumed the victims of a sacrifice. Teraphim, The: Of the…
Teutons
The Teutonic or "Germanic" nations, embracing the peoples of High and Low German speech, Dutch, Danes, and Scandinavians, have always…
Theomancy
The part of the Jewish Kabala which studies the mysteries of the divine majesty and seeks the sacred names. He who possesses this science…
Theosophical Society of Agrippa
Agrippa (q.v.) established in Paris and other centres a secret theosophical society, the rites of admission to which were of a peculiar…
Theosophy
From the Greek theos, god, and sophia, wisdom; a philosophical-religious system which claims absolute knowledge of the existence and nature…
Theurgia Goetia
(See Key of Solomon the King.) Thian-ti-hwii-or Heaven and Earth League; an ancient esoteric society in China, said to have still been in…
Thomas the Rhymer
Scottish Soothsayer (circa, 1220.) It is impossible to name the exact date which witnessed the advent of the Scottish soothsayer, Thomas…
Thought-Reading
A term somewhat loosely applied to various forms of apparent thought-transference, even where the method employed is muscle-reading or…
Tibet
In this country, the stronghold of Buddhism, all superstition circles around the national religion, which at the same time has absorbed…
Tii
A Polynesian Vampire. (See Vampire.) Timæus of Locris: The earliest known writer on the doctrines of magic. The Timœan theory of God, the…
Tadebtsois – Tinkers' Talk
Spirits believed in by the Samoyeds. (See Siberia.) The name for a Samoyed magician. (See Siberia.)
Tomga
Eskimo familiar spirits. (See Eskimos.) Tongues, Speaking and Writing in: The speaking and writing in foreign tongues, or in unintelligible…
Tower of London
The jewel-room of the Tower of London is reported to be haunted, and, in 1860, there was published in Notes and Queries by the late Edmund…
Trance
An abnormal state, either spontaneous or induced, bearing some analogy to the ordinary sleep-state, but differing from it in certain marked…
Trance Personalities
Trance messages purporting to come from the medium's spirit control do not as a rule reveal a very definite personality. The control…
Transmutation of the Body
This is indeed the end and aim of all Alchemy-to restore man to his primordial condition of grace, strength, perfection, beauty and…
Tree Ghosts
Indian tree spirits. Says Mr. Crookes in his Popular Religion of Northern India. These tree ghoss are, it is needless to say, very…
Tremblers of the Cevennes
A Protestant caste of convulsonaires, who during the sixteenth century spread themselves from their centre in the Cevennes over almost the…
Triad Society
An ancient esoteric society of China. The candidate scantily clothed, is brought into a dark room by two members, who lead him to the…
Trithemius
The son of a German vine-grower, named Heidenberg, received his Latinized appellation from. Trittheim, a village in the electorate of…
Trivah
Among the natives of Borneo the trivah, or feast of the dead, is celebrated after a death has taken place. A panel containing a…
Tumah
According to the Kabala, physical or moral uncleanness. The latter is divided into three main divisions idolatry, murder, and immorality…
Tiromancy – Tunisa
Divination by means of cheese. It is practised in divers ways the details of which are not known. (See Mexico and Central America.)