CACODEMON An evil spirit or demon.
CALL In a card-guessing or ESP test, this is the subjects response.
CAOINEAG An evil unseen elemental from Celtic mythology that is associated with water. A caoineag is said to wail during the night near a cascade or waterfall as an omen of death, devastation and great sadness. (see banshee)
CARD GUESSING When subjects guess the identity of cards, as in a test for ESP.
CASE STUDY An in-depth investigation of an individual subject or event.
CHANNELING A form of communication between the living and the dead where an unseen spirit possesses a medium in order to impart guidance, and wisdom. The channeled spirit may be a deceased loved one or supernatural entity, such as an angel or demon.
CHARM (see amulet)
CLAIRAUDIENCE The psychic ability to hear otherwise imperceptible sounds and voices.
CLAIRVOYANCE A form of extra-sensory perception where one gains insight regarding spirits, objects, places, people and events through means other than the common human senses.
CLAIRVOYANT One who has the ability of clairvoyance; to see beyond the range of normal perception.
CLASSIC HAUNTING An apparitional entity such as a phantom, ghost, spirit, poltergeist or presence that appears in a specific location.
CLURICHAUN A surly Irish fairy or leprechaun that appears at night in an inebriated state. May be protective or destructive depending on one’s treatment of them.
COLD READING
A psychic reading that is given without previous knowledge of the sitter.
A technique that allows fake mediums or readers to obtain previously unknown information about a sitter.
COLD SPOT Mysterious currents of cold air that materialize in haunted places. They are considered evidence of the presence of a spirit or spirits.
COLLECTIVE APPARITION The sighting of an apparition simultaneously by multiple people.
CONTROL A spirit that assists, speaks or acts through a medium during séances. 2. A procedure undertaken in order to ensure that an experiment is conducted in a controlled, standardized fashion.
CONTROL GROUP A group of people or subjects whose performance is compared to that of experimental subjects.
CRISIS APPARITION The recognizable appearance of the spirit of a loved one or friend to one who is facing a crisis, such as grave illness, injury, danger and death. Some experts believe this phenomenon to be the result of telepathic communication rather than the presence of a spirit. (see fetch)
CROSS-CORRESPONDENCES Interrelated bits of information received from the spirit world by different mediums at different times and locations that are joined together to form a complete message.
COLLECT UNCONSCIOUS An analytical psychology developed by Carl Jung which theorizes that there is a collective memory of the history of humanity and that it exists in the unconscious mind.
CORPORSANT Another name for St. Elmo’s fire.
CORPSE CANDLE (see orb)
CORRELATION The association between two or more events or variables. Correlation Coefficient: A mathematical index of the degree of association between two or more measures.
CROSS CORRESPONDENCE Data received from the spirit world.
CROSSROADS The intersection of two or more roads. Experts believe that they attract supernatural energy.
CORPOREAL The physical, material body of a living being.
CROWD DEMONS Demonic apparitions that mysteriously appear in photographs; the subject(s) is/are unaware of the intrusion.
CRYPTOZOOLOGY The search for evidence of mythical animals and creatures such as a Sasquatch or dragon.
CRYSTAL BALL An orb made of crystal or glass that is believed to aid a clairvoyant in the divination process. Also known as a shew stone.
CRYSTALLOMANCY The technique of scrying with crystals; crystal gazing.
CURUPIRA A mythological demonic creature of Brazilian folklore that resembles a small man with fiery red hair. They are said to live in the forest and to use backwards feet to confuse travellers, greedy hunters and poachers, and high-pitched whistles to scare and drive victims mad.
CAIM In Celtic folklore and early Christian folk magic, a protective spiritual circle or boundary drawn around an individual to ward off malevolent entities, spirits, and demons.
CATACLYSMIC SHADE A violent, residual ghost that replays the final destructive moments of a historical battle or catastrophe, deeply tethered to ancient Celtic or Visigothic battlegrounds.
CERBERUS The monstrous multi-headed hound of ancient mythological and demonic tradition that guards the subterranean gates of the underworld, preventing the dead from escaping.
CHALLIS DEITY An ancient Celtic water spirit or elemental dwelling in deep sacred springs, known to demand offerings in exchange for granting visions of the future.
CHTHONIC DEMON A subterranean underworld spirit or ancient deity from classical demonology associated with the earth, decay, and the unrestrained forces of the abyss.
CLARION OF DOOM A folkloric spectral horn or trumpet sound from Germanic and Gothic tribal legends heard riding the wind before a devastating plague or total ruin.
CLoven SHADE A horned demonic entity or satyr-like spirit from medieval demonological lore that haunts deep forests and seduces unsuspecting travelers into the shadows.
COLLOQUY OF SOULS An anomalous spiritual phenomenon where multiple discarnate voices converse in an empty chamber, mimicking the language of ancient ancestral clans.
CORPSE-CANDLE SPECTER A wandering ignis fatuus or marsh light from Celtic and Visigothic tradition that physically tracks an individual to mark the precise path their funeral procession will take.
CROW-WITCH A malevolent shapeshifting spirit or witch from early European and Gothic folklore that takes the form of a scavenging bird to pluck the memories from newly dug graves.