Editing Pyrokinesis (section)

{{Short description|Psychic ability allowing a person to create and control fire with the mind}}
[[File:Daniel Dunglas Home.jpg|thumb|The medium [[Daniel Dunglas Home]] was an alleged practitioner of pyrokinesis.]]

'''Pyrokinesis''' is a [[List of psychic abilities|psychic ability]] allowing a person to create and control [[fire]] with the mind.<ref name="Joyce">{{cite book|last1=Joyce|first1=Judith|title=The Weiser Field Guide to the Paranormal|date=2011|publisher=Weiser Books|location=San Francisco, California|isbn=978-1609252984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aYqjnjDzBQC&q=pyrokinesis&pg=PA159 |pages=159}}</ref><ref name="Gresh">{{cite book|last1=Gresh|first1=Lois H.|last2=Weinberg|first2=Robert|title=The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, The Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Masters Fiction|date=2007|publisher=Wiley & Sons|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|isbn=9780471782476|url=https://archive.org/details/scienceofstephen0000gres/page/38|pages=[https://archive.org/details/scienceofstephen0000gres/page/38 38–39]|access-date=5 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Westfahl|first1=Gary|last2=Gaiman|first2=Neil|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy|date=2005|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=9780313329524|page=637|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3JXnz9x9sO4C&q=pyrokinesis&pg=PA637|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref> As with other [[parapsychological]] phenomena, there is no conclusive evidence in support of the actual existence of pyrokinesis. Many alleged cases are [[hoax]]es and the result of trickery.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stein|first1=Gordon|last2=Gardner|first2=Martin|title=Encyclopedia of Hoaxes|date=1993|publisher=Gale Research|location=Detroit|isbn=0810384140|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofho0000stei/page/n186 161]–164|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofho0000stei|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Nickell">{{cite book|last1=Nickell|first1=Joe|title=Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files|date=2004|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|location=Lexington, Kentucky|isbn=9780813123189|pages=56–60}}</ref>