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poltergeist|ˈpɒltəgaɪst|
[Ger. f. polter noise, uproar + geist ghost.]
A spirit which makes its presence known by noises; a noisy spirit. Also attrib. and fig.
1848C. Crowe Night Side of Nature II. vi. 238 (heading) The poltergeist of the Germans, and possession. Ibid. 239 The annoyances appear rather like the tricks of a mischievous imp. I refer to what the Germans call the Poltergeist, or racketing spectre. 1863Q. Rev. July 193 It seems a suspicious circumstance that the old-fashioned visible ghost has in these modern séances been almost entirely superseded by the Poltergeist or noise-making spirit. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. 176 Vampires appear in the character of the poltergeist or knocker. 1898Month Sept. 229 If there be nothing in hallucinations, apparitions, scrying, second-sight, poltergeists, and the rest. 1902F. Podmore Mod. Spiritualism I. i. ii. 25. 1903 Edin. Rev. Oct. 308 Most poltergeists are not content with mere noises. 1927J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation vi. 187 Exorcism is magic: the Rumanian poltergeist medium, Eleonore Zugun, whose case was recently investigated in London, was the subject of exorcist rites by Rumanian priests. 1940[see doppelganger]. 1979M. Babson So soon done For i. 8 A disturbed adolescent in an area of intense poltergeist activity.
Hence ˈpoltergeistic a., of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a poltergeist; ˈpoltergeistism, the manifestation or activity of poltergeists.
1952R. F. Jones in ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF Five (1963) 44 Reports on poltergeistism at Leander Castle near London. 1973L. M. Boston Memory in House v. 61 The house..from time to time sent feelers out from its darkest corners, such as slight poltergeistic displacements, footsteps up the wooden stairs,..etc. |