| 单词 | planchette |
| 例句 | “I just hope she didn’t go and make anything mad, with her planchette,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I think perhaps after dinner we will have a little session with planchette,” Mrs. Montague said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “So you see, this time we were right to ask, because planchette was perfectly free with the answer.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Mocking and jeering, were you not? Skeptical, with planchette’s very words before your eyes? Those young people pert and insolent?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The voice was light, perhaps only a child’s voice, singing sweetly and thinly, on the barest breath, and Eleanor smiled and remembered, hearing the little song more clearly than Mrs. Montague’s voice continuing about planchette. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Seems like you ought to put in our notes from planchette. What are you writing now?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Please, sir,” Luke was saying meekly, “who is planchette?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He ventured into the occult—organizing séances and planchette sessions at home, or meeting his friends to meditate at a crematorium at night. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I am so interested in hearing what—ah—planchette had to say.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Ordinarily we never ask why,” Mrs. Montague said, “because it tends to confuse planchette. However, this time we were bold, and came right out and asked. Arthur?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She seems to drift, like the planchette on a Ouija board. In ‘Pew,’ a Mysterious Stranger Tests a Small Town’s Tolerance 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z “Are you Debbie?” they ask, and the planchette moves to “No.” Review: Toys Scare Us in the Halloween Horror Film Ouija 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z This is spoken like a man who seems to have spent some time pushing a planchette around an Ouija board himself. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z It seemed like something that was too powerful to be trifled with, like a planchette resting atop a Ouija board. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s like using a Ouija board, but instead of a little wooden planchette you are tugging at a two-hundred-dollar piece of technology that contains your entire existence. A New App for Dancing with Your iPhone 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z I’ve been taught by the same teacher whose “hands hover above the cards, as if guiding a planchette over a Ouija board.” ‘The Bridge Ladies’ review: Fifty years of friendship in a pre-Facebook era 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z I mean, our hands moved the planchette in a way that felt like the planchette was moving our hands. About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z When she asked what they should call it, the planchette spelled out “Ouija”, which the board told her meant “good luck”. The Ouija board's mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z But as a teenager — bored, lonely, with a vague taste for the occult — I read tarot cards and messed around with Ouija boards, mortified when the planchette would glide toward some crush’s name. A Séance Relies on Illusion. So Does Theater. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z I felt like a teen-ager playing with a Ouija board and trying not to move the planchette deliberately. Searching for Nazi Gold 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z A lady was writing automatically by means of the planchette. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z "Dolly," suggested Ruth, from her place on the rug, "set planchette to work, and make it tell us secrets; make it tell us whether Miss Billy understands the true character of Achilles Larue!" Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Autoscope.—Any instrument which reveals a subliminal motor impulse or sensory impression, e.g., a divining rod, a tilting table, or a planchette. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Their modern planchette is a small board, which they let float upon the water, with the legs upward; they rest their hands upon the latter, and watch the gyrations it makes in the water. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Every lady in Europe thenceforth rode on a side-saddle, à la planchette, for France had long set the fashions. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z I have heard them on sheets of paper laid on the experiment-table, in books, in walls, in tambourines, in small wooden objects, especially in a planchette used for automatic writing. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z "She does not; I can tell her that without planchette," replied Dolly. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Such a sudden poetic creation, like the calculating boy's announcement of the product of two numbers, resembles the sudden rush of planchette or pencil, in haste to scrawl some long-wished-for word. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z A famous German spiritualist, Hornung, whose faith was well known, once laid his hands upon his planchette together with his wife, and then asked if there really was a world of spirits? Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Lecamus knew that Catherine, instead of traveling in a litter, liked to ride on horseback on a planchette, as it was called, a side saddle with a foot-rest. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z In 1700 a curé, near Toulouse, used the wand to answer questions, which, like planchette, it often answered wrong. Custom and Myth New Edition Dolly began to talk as soon as they came in, selecting a subject which had nothing to do with planchette. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z “Any more sense to ’em than your crazy planchette?” scoffed Captain Morton. In the Heart of a Fool It is they who are "vitalized," as they call it, and not the knocking table, or the writing planchette, and hence arises the necessity of a medium for all such communications. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The need of the telescope and the microscope is not questioned, but the thought of the planchette evokes ridicule. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war In the earlier years of the spiritualist movement, a "planchette," a little heart-shaped board running on wheels, was employed to facilitate the process of writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" "Yes," began Billy again; "I thought—it seemed better—" "Dolly," interrupted Ruth, "get out planchette, and make it write Billy a love letter!" Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z And the mother sets down a communication from Socrates through the planchette to Amos, declaring that “Love is a sphere center”–a message which doubtless the fond parents worked into tremendous import for their child. In the Heart of a Fool You used to carry a planchette that once belonged to the actress Rachel. The Pagan Madonna But one of the reporters who happened to be driven off the street by the rain one night found Henry and David in the office with a homemade planchette doing queer things. In Our Town Presently the tight tendons of the uplifter's hand showed grey against his skin, but without avail, because the Wildcat's little finger lay tight against the perimeter of the moving planchette. Lady Luck She motioned Miss Breeze solemnly to a chair near her table, and taking the planchette from its box, she arranged the paper under it. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z They think that planchette is nonsense, but how do they account for coincidences like that! In the Heart of a Fool Those who associate this latest mystery only with gyrating articles of furniture, rapping tables, or simpering planchettes, are simply in the abyss of ignorance, and dangerously underrate the gravity of the subject. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis This is true not only in cases of automatic writing in which the hand is directly employed, but also in those in which some mechanical device such as the planchette or the ouija board intervenes. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers Other methods of tapping the subconscious mental life are: planchette, automatic writing and crystal-gazing. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal And the automatic writings of the mediums indorse this disrespectful view, for it is difficult to gather more idiotic slang than the emanations of these letters of the planchette. Psychotherapy Once my elders were engaged in an attempt to start a postal service with the other world by means of a planchette. My Reminiscences Mixed up with them were implements for every sort of wizardry known to the superstitious; from old-fashioned English love charms to African Obi sticks, from spiritualistic planchettes to the most horrible of Fijian death potions. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta We could not bear to give up planchette even after both our names had been signed, and I said pleadingly: 'Oh, don't go away! Seen and Unseen Epes Sargent's book, Planchette: the Despair of Science, contains in reality very little on the planchette board, and the title is somewhat deceptive. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Will no exact scientist condescend to examine the properties of a planchette? Brood of the Witch-Queen In placing our fingers on a planchette, armed with a pencil, and in aiding its motions, we are brought into direct personal association with the results. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 While he was away she'd been all through psychometry, the planchette, clairvoyance, palmistry, astrology, and Unitarianism. The Seeker So we gave up trying to write the letter ourselves, took down planchette from its shelf, and started again. Seen and Unseen On close investigation, the stories of conversational parrots prove as apocryphal as Katy-King legends and planchette miracles. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Vaguely, only, he perceived that it was all connected somehow with the ordinariness of the accessories, and more impressive therefore than all the paraphernalia of planchette, spinning mirrors, or even his own dreams. The Necromancers In 1700 a curé, near Toulouse, used the wand to answer questions, which, like planchette, it often answered wrong. Custom and Myth The object of the investigation was to study, with the aid of a planchette, the varying liability to automatic movements among normal individuals. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The object, however, really was analogous to planchette, Ouija, and other modern modes of automatic divination. Cock Lane and Common-Sense There was a planchette, a tambourine, and other more mysterious appliances which suggested that the inmate spent much time with the trappings and rappings of spiritualism. The Moon Rock The little apparatus called planchette, or the other, the ouija, is of course, consciously or unconsciously, pushed by the performers. The Making of Religion Almost every night our angel friends communicated with us unmistakably through the ouija, and planchette; they would draw caricature pictures of us all, and give us conundrums and jokes that we had never known before. The Gentleman from Everywhere Cousin Parnelia took her hand off planchette, put on her spectacles, read over what had been written, and gave it to Professor Marshall. The Bent Twig I am in touch with several very wonderful thought-readers, crystal-gazers, mediums, and planchette writers, who have often strangely illumined the dark places of life for me. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract He fiddled with the planchette on the table as though he had some notion of invoking the shade of Robert Turold to answer the question. The Moon Rock But it would be just as sensible to use the twig as to use planchette or any other 'autoscopic' apparatus. The Making of Religion Suddenly coming to herself, she seized the pencil from planchette and wrote rapidly on the paper, while Mrs. Thaxter held her other hand. Sketches from Concord and Appledore I sat up in bed and said, 'What is it?' and then I felt a great longing to have planchette write. The Bent Twig Perhaps it came from the Beyond, through planchette. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract The seances had been most remarkable, too; and he would have to get out his planchette again. Queen Lucia No doubt she still turned the kitchen saucer that did duty for planchette, unconsciously pushing its blunted pencil towards the letters that should spell out coming help. A Prisoner in Fairyland After dinner I was asked by the Duchess' granddaughters—Lady Aldra and Lady Mary Acheson—to join them at planchette, so, to please them, I put my hand upon the board. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Cousin Parnelia put one deeply veined, shrunken old hand on planchette and the other over her eyes and waited, her wrinkled, commonplace old face assuming a solemn expression of importance. The Bent Twig Even planchette - the French toy which years ago pleased so many people - attested the con- 80:24 trol of mortal mind over its substratum, called matter. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures The tortoise and the grass have long since disappeared as instruments of divination, which is now carried on by means of lots drawn from a vase, with answers attached; by planchette; and by the chiao. Religions of Ancient China In some parts of China, planchette is frequently resorted to as a means of reading the future, and adapting one's actions accordingly. The Civilization of China This planchette business had a somewhat curious ending. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot I never breathe a word of criticism about planchette, of course. The Bent Twig Just after the clock struck two she wrote the loveliest message for you with planchette. The Bent Twig She was all stirred up and pleased about a new 'method' of using planchette. The Bent Twig Poor old idiot, she was certain that planchette would tell who it was that stole our chickens. The Bent Twig The planchette hesitated a while then wrote rapidly and stopped. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot Indeed, his fatigued tolerance for her had been a positive distaste ever since the day when he found her showing Sylvia, aged ten, how to write with planchette. The Bent Twig I told her to go ahead—but planchette wouldn't write. The Bent Twig The last time he was here, I heard Cousin Parnelia trying to persuade him to have planchette write him a message from Abraham Lincoln. The Bent Twig After this the seances were given up but Jacobsen produced an instrument called a planchette and with difficulty persuaded Bickley to try it, which he did after many precautions. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot |
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