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xenoglossy

Xenoglossy is the alleged speaking or writing in a language entirely unknown to the speaker. The probability of this happening is about zero.

See also automatic writingglossolalia, and Ian Stevenson.

further reading

"xenoglossy," by Dr. Sarah Gray Thomason in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996).


Last updated 02/23/09

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