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

Inspired by the lore of mediums and table-rapping in the books of Frenchman Allan Kardec, the Brazilian Spiritual Federation was founded 74 years ago, now claims 3,600 centers throughout the country.

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

When Shaw replied: "I gave up table-rapping in my childhood," Swaffer wrote back: "I thought that now you are in your second childhood, you might want to give it another go."

From Time Magazine Archive

The spiritualists themselves admit that their table-rapping spooks are precious dull dogs; it would be difficult, in face of the communications recorded, for them to deny it. 

From The Angel and the Author, and others by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)