table-turning
noun1
Parapsychology, Pseudoscience The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits.
2
Idiomatic The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge.
- Fantasies of table-turning and revenge seem to be commonplace in history; but war gives extra space for their enactment, and widespread weaponry also makes them more likely to be lethal […]2005, David Keen, Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone, page 62: