![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Magicians and scientists have suggested concealed pieces of phosphorus may have instead been responsible. Underwood, a 19th-century African-American, achieved minor celebrity status with the purported ability to set items ablaze. Joshi describing it as a "singularly unfortunate coinage" and noting that the correct analogy to telekinesis would "not be 'pyrokinesis' but 'telepyrosis' (fire from a distance)". The word is intended to be parallel to telekinesis, with S. The word pyrokinesis (Greek language: pyr=fire, kinesis=movement) was popularized by horror novelist Stephen King in his 1980 novel Firestarter to describe the ability to create and control fire with the mind, though its use predates the novel. Many alleged cases are hoaxes, the result of trickery. As with other parapsychological phenomena, there is no conclusive evidence in support of the actual existence of pyrokinesis. Pyrokinesis is the purported psychic ability allowing a person to create and control fire with the mind. The medium Daniel Dunglas Home was an alleged practitioner of pyrokinesis. ![]()
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