levitation

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By the time he put together his 39-point, 14-assist masterpiece against TCU, it had already become clear that Young had ceased to play basketball entirely and was instead performing a series of David Blaine-like levitations.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2018

For the next two years or so Mompesson’s house was haunted by a poltergeist.2 There were drumming noises but also strange levitations of objects and alarming noises.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A whole hour will pass without the least rotation beginning; or, if there are rotations, levitations are impossible to procure; what little is done by the table is done feebly, dismally, and as if reluctantly.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

In order to be sure of abnormalities like these levitations, for example, we must make sure of them a hundred times over; not see them once, but a hundred times.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

As to levitations without contact, we discovered a method of proceeding that renders their success easier.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille