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

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

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

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

Well, the first thing she said was that those souls want to communicate; and that they begin generally by things like table-rapping, or making blue lights.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh