Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Séance

séance
science
sense
essence

"The word seance, French for 'session,' now almost exclusively denotes a gathering held to commune with spirits." —Barbara Weisberg, Talking to the Dead, 2005

2 comments:

Tamara said...

The very sound of the word is mysterious.

Eccentric Scholar said...

I agree. It was magical even before the Spiritualist connotations.