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spirit rapping
noun
, Spiritualism.
- a form of communication between living persons and the spirits of deceased persons by tapping out messages on a table, board, or the like.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of spirit rapping1
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences
I hear a spirit rapping at the door.'
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The Fox sisters, to whom we owe the origin of modern spiritism, confessed that this was the way they produced their spirit rapping.
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The exhibitions consisted of the usual phenomena, table turning, spirit rapping and the moving of large bodies by invisible means.
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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.
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Sladder: The wife of the head of my firm believed in spirit rapping.
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