Women had privileged positions in mediumistic circles and Daoism. It is perhaps most commonly in Paganism, Shamanism, and other mediumistic religious practices. She was interested in spiritualism, and had mediumistic gifts. He wrote that fraud and hypnotism could explain mediumistic phenomena. He claimed to have had mediumistic abilities from an early age. After attending mediumistic sessions, she claims to have discovered her intuitive and healing abilities. Yaka divination, which is mediumistic, originated in the ngoombu cult.