table-rapping

British  

noun

1. the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living

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Example Sentences

Sometimes he tells stories that end with persuasive, table-rapping declarations.

From Washington Post

At a table-rapping seance, the countess herself is taken aback when her dead son's voice materializes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a thinker Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table-rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then We'll hear no more of seance, table-rapping, And all that trash, o'er which the world is gaping, Lost in effect, while science seeks the cause.

From Maurine and Other Poems by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler