Bilocation

Bilocation, a word adopted into English from the Eccles. Lat. bilocatio=the power or state of being in two places at the same time. This power is said to have been possessed by many of the Roman saints, notably by St. Francis Xavier and St. Alfonso di Liguori; and in the case of the latter it is attributed to him in the office for his feast (August 2). On the subject of phenomena of this class Tylor remarks that the reception and explanation of them fit perfectly with the primitive animistic theory of apparitions.