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A séance or seance is an attempt to communicate with spirits. The word séance comes from the French word for "session", from the Old French seoir, "to sit". In French, the word's meaning is quite general and mundane: one may, for example, speak of "une séance de cinéma ". In English, however, the word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people who are gathered to receive messages from gh... Wikipedia