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

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

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

The belief in the prolongation of individual life beyond the grave is far more real and vivid among table-rapping Spiritualists than among conventional Christians.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion by Shaw, Bernard