"Ghosts Turning The Table" Show is still very common in Taiwan Villages but it has almost died out in China. It was once very common in olden days China Villages.
Ghosts Turning Table is also known as:
- Eight Immortals Turning Table - 八仙转桌
- Four Kids Turning Table - 四童转桌
- Nine Cows Turning Table - 九牛转桌 / 九牛造
Talismans used during
"Ghosts Turning The Table" Performance
"Ghosts Turning Table" Spell：
天池水，地池水，井泉水，三水共一水，请大鬼，请小鬼，左请左转，右请右转，王灵官金鞭打转，当方土地使鬼推转，吾奉太上老君急急如律令。
Main Talisman is burned into a bowl filled with water. The other 4 talismans are pasted onto the 4 legs of a square table. The square table is overturned and placed on top of the bowl. 4 persons with their fingers lightly touch and balance the table. Taoist Master / Sorcerer chanted the "Ghosts Turn The Table" Spell. Within minutes, table starts to turn. When Taoist Master say change direction, the direction changes. If say turn faster, the table turn faster and the 4 persons balancing the table have to run to catch up with the speed.
"Table-Turning" - Western Version
In Western Countries, there is a similar but slightly different type of performance called "Table-Turning". It is also known as table-tapping, table-tipping or table-tilting. It is a type of séance in which participants sit around a table, place their hands on it, do prayer / chanting and wait for rotations. The table was purportedly made to serve as a means of communicating with the spirits.
When the movement of Modern Spiritualism first reached Europe from America in the winter of 1852–1853, the most popular method of consulting the spirits was for several persons to sit round a table, with their hands resting on it, and wait for the table to move. If the experiment was successful the table would rotate with considerable rapidity, and would occasionally rise in the air, or perform other movements.