spirit medium
Ghost communication specialist
A spirit medium is a person who claims to communicate with the dead, serving as a channel between the living and the spirit world.
Mediums conduct séances, deliver messages from deceased relatives, and perform other acts of apparent supernatural contact.
The practice flourished in the 19th-century spiritualism movement and persists in various forms today.
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- Victorian parlorFormal reception room, 1800s
Ouija board · dark room · holding hands · necromancy · ghosts · other side · crystal ball · divination · shamanism · automatic writing · tarot cards · ectoplasm · clairvoyance · palm reading · psychometry · cold reading · poltergeists · voices
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- Biblical Supernaturalsorcery, witchcraft, magic, demons, exorcism
- Occult PracticesOuija board, seance, tarot, tarot cards, crystal ball
- paranormalistspsychic, parapsychologist, clairvoyant, sensitive, demonologist
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- Taiwan beliefsJade Emperor, Taoism, folk religion, temple fair, joss paper
belief in supernatural communication
spirit mediumskeptic
One who doubts claims
materialist · debunker · atheist · rationalist · disbeliever