pneumatography
(-ˈɒgrəfɪ)
[f. pneumato- + -graphy.]
1. ‘Spirit-writing’, i.e. writing alleged to be done directly by a disembodied spirit, without the hand of a medium or any material instrument.
| 1876 A. Blackwell tr. Kardec's Medium's Bk. xxxii. 447 Pneumatography... This word denotes the direct writing of spirits, without the use of the medium's hand. |
2. A description of supposed spiritual beings, or of beliefs about them; the descriptive part of pneumatology (sense 1 a).
| 1881 O. T. Mason in Smithsonian Rep. (1883) 501. |