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

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

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

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

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

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

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

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

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

"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

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

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

"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