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Another spirit feared in Gullah culture is the plat eye. The plat eye is a one-eyed ghost that can morph into various forms. It is conjured when a person buries the head of a murdered man inside a hole with treasure. [260] Communication with spirits and the dead (ancestors) is a continued practice in Hoodoo that originated in West and Central ...
"Mental mediumship" is communication of spirits with a medium by telepathy. The medium mentally "hears" (clairaudience), "sees" (clairvoyance), and/or feels (clairsentience) messages from spirits. Directly or with the help of a spirit guide, the medium passes the information on to the message's recipient(s).
Here is a list of people who claim to be mediums or channelers in communication with beings and spirits of the deceased, through the study and practice of mediumship. Mediumship is the practice of those people known as mediums that allegedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings. [1] [2
Shaking tents could be a lodge or a teepee used to summon spirits. Shaking tent ceremony is a ritual of some Indigenous people in North America that is used to connect the people with the spirit realm and establish a connection and line of communication between the spirit world and the mortal world.
Objects were often used in these rituals in order to facilitate communication with the gods. One of the most commonly found magical objects, the ivory apotropaic wand ( birth tusk ), gained widespread popularity in the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040 – 1782 BCE). [ 3 ]
Nicknamed “fairy stones” or “spirit babies,” clay babies, also spelled as one word, are known for their unusual shapes. Some look like fingers, puddles, animals, grapes, people or clouds.
Pag-anito refers to a séance, often accompanied by other rituals or celebrations, in which a shaman (Visayan: babaylan, Tagalog: katalonan) acts as a medium to communicate directly with the dead ancestors and spirits. [1] When a nature spirit or deity is specifically involved, the ritual is called pagdiwata. The act of worship or a religious ...
There are distinct African influences found within this religion through the orishas that are used to communicate to the spirit world. During the rituals, the mediums have the ability to communicate with spirits but are possessed by the dead who are messengers of the orishas, [18] who many mistake to be the orishas themselves.