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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pohl-ter-gahyst |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊl tərˌgaɪst |
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Définition of poltergeist
Origin :- 1838, from German Poltergeist, literally "noisy ghost," from poltern "make noise, rattle" (from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, ring, roar;" cf. bellow, bell) + Geist "ghost" (see ghost). In the native idiom of Northern England, such phenomenon likely would be credited to a boggart.
- noun ghost
- I was told you claimed you had to have a poltergeist in the process.
- Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
- Yet where did these articles go, and of what use would they be to a poltergeist?
- Extract from : « Byways of Ghost-Land » by Elliott O'Donnell
- In case you rejected our applicant for the poltergeist job you have in mind, I was to hand you this.
- Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
- On this theory they sent her to her home in a neighboring village, where the poltergeist continued to annoy her.
- Extract from : « Adventurings in the Psychical » by H. Addington Bruce
- Poltergeist phenomena, however, seldom coincide with the ordinary phenomena of a haunt.
- Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
- Perhaps, if he took no notice, the poltergeist would be discouraged and subside.
- Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
- If trickery is not detected the poltergeist is the manifestation of an evil spirit.
- Extract from : « Spiritualism and the New Psychology » by Millais Culpin
- The poltergeist phenomenon is usually spectacular and is nearly always associated with teen-age neurotics.
- Extract from : « Psichopath » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- A poltergeist that up to the present had confined its attentions to me, no one else in the house having either heard or seen it.
- Extract from : « Byways of Ghost-Land » by Elliott O'Donnell
- Well, sir, I don't know if you have ever heard of the Henker's Poltergeist, but it is a fact well known to all in the township.
- Extract from : « Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II » by Alexander Huth
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