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spirit rapping
noun
a form of communication between living persons and the spirits of deceased persons by tapping out messages on a table, board, or the like.
Other Word Forms
- spirit rapper noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of spirit rapping1
Example Sentences
I hear a spirit rapping at the door.'
The Fox sisters, to whom we owe the origin of modern spiritism, confessed that this was the way they produced their spirit rapping.
The exhibitions consisted of the usual phenomena, table turning, spirit rapping and the moving of large bodies by invisible means.
We have now come to the closing section of this already long essay,—namely, to the explanation of such phenomena as table-tipping, spirit rapping and dictation, and distant transmission of thought.
Sladder: The wife of the head of my firm believed in spirit rapping.
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