spirit-rapping

And there he found all the wise people instructing mankind in the science of spirit-rapping, while their house was burning over their heads: and when Tom told them of the fire, they held an indignation meeting forthwith, and unanimously determined to hang

The Water Babies 2007

[1805] This form of spirit-rapping was familiar to the ancients, and

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Another of the lions of Boston which I determined to witness, if possible, was "spirit-rapping."

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

The great talk now is Mrs. Beecher Stowe and spirit-rapping, both of which have arrived in England.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

The great talk now is Mrs. Beecher Stowe and spirit-rapping, both of which have arrived in England.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

It was a case of pure madness (for people of the world), just like table-moving and spirit-rapping and the 'hands'!

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

"To every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late," as Macaulay sings, and it is no less impossible to escape spirit-rapping and all the fascinating _menu_ of the Psychical Society.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

I saw in her an example of the common multitude, who are more ready to believe in vulgar spirit-rapping and mesmerism than to accept an established scientific fact.

A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli 1889

Then, all of a sudden, the moorland villages round were overtaken by an epidemic of spirit-rapping and table-turning.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

"I know that well, and perfectly harmless such crazes are so long as the victims confine their beliefs to spirit-rapping, table-turning, and humbug of that sort; but when their convictions lead them to commit actions which compromise serious interests, and when, as in this case, there is a possibility of life itself being in danger, it is time they should be looked after."

A Master of Mysteries L. T. Meade 1884