A nineteenth-century spiritualist practice in which sitters attempt to communicate with spirits by causing a table to tilt, rotate, or move during a séance.
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The physical act of turning or rotating a table.
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A figurative reversal of roles or circumstances, akin to 'turning the tables', in which a previously weaker or subordinate party gains the upper hand.