Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general name given to certain supposed spiritualistic manifestations, as audible raps or knocks on tables, table-turning, and kindred demonstrations. See
spiritualism , 3.
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Examples
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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
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[1805] This form of spirit-rapping was familiar to the ancients, and
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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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
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The great talk now is Mrs. Beecher Stowe and spirit-rapping, both of which have arrived in England.
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The great talk now is Mrs. Beecher Stowe and spirit-rapping, both of which have arrived in England.
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It was a case of pure madness (for people of the world), just like table-moving and spirit-rapping and the 'hands'!
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"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.
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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.
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Then, all of a sudden, the moorland villages round were overtaken by an epidemic of spirit-rapping and table-turning.
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"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."
hernesheir commented on the word spirit-rapping
What a spirit rapper does, of course.
December 13, 2011