table rapping

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Noun

table rapping (countable and uncountable, plural table rappings)

  1. A rapping noise made, purportedly by spirits of the dead, on the table at which a seance is held.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 229:
      I wish it were possible to impress this truth upon people who rush into spiritualism from curiosity, or who try "table rapping" or some similar phenomenon "for fun".