table turning

Japanese: table turning(英語表記)tableturning
table turning

...In the West, it is called an Ouija board (oui is French and ja is German, both meaning "Jesus") or planchette, and was widely used as an experimental tool in spiritualism, which developed after the 19th century. There are other similar divination methods around the world, such as the Chinese "Dragon God Divination," and it is now considered a type of automatic writing or table turning (knocking on a table to have a spiritual conversation) in psychology, and is also analyzed from the perspective of unconscious behavior. Fortune Telling [Aramata Hiroshi]...

*Some terminology explanations that mention "table turning" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…西洋ではウイジャ盤ouija board(ouiはフランス語,jaはドイツ語でともに〈イエス〉の意)あるいはプランシェットplanchetteと呼ばれ,19世紀以降発達した心霊学の実験器具としても広く用いられた。ほかに中国の〈竜神占い〉など類似の占術は世界各地に見られ,最近では心理学にいう自動筆記automatic writingやテーブル・ターニングtable turning(テーブルをノックすることで霊的会話を行う)の一種と考えられ,無意識的行動という視点からも分析されている。占い【荒俣 宏】。…

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