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Definition of Rappings
1. rapping [n] - See also: rapping
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rappings
Literary usage of Rappings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"First rappings in Hydesville, NY—Time, Manner, Circumstances.—A Murdered Man's
Spirit—How the Mystery was Solved.—rappings, the Spirit Language. ..."
2. Old England and New England: In a Series of Views Taken on the Spot by Alfred Bunn (1853)
"Spiritual rappings—Their extent and their exposure—Visit of his mother's spirit
to the author—The spirit moveth tables and chairs, as well as itself—Spirits ..."
3. Old England and New England, in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot: In a by Alfred Bunn (1853)
"Spiritual rappings—Their extent and their exposure—Visit of his mother's spirit
to the author—The spirit moveth tables and chairs, as well as itself—Spirits ..."
4. Are the Dead Alive?: The Problem of Physical [!] Research that the World's by Fremont Rider (1909)
"Are the rappings Genuine? But it is impossible to dismiss the whole subject of
rappings with an airy wave of the hand: the evidence is too voluminous and ..."
5. The Mercersburg Review by Reformed Church in the United States Publication Board, Franklin and Marshall College Alumni Association (1861)
"... performed no deeds more ludicrous than some of those which are known in common
parlance as "table-movings " and " spirit-rappings;" still ..."
6. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"Mr. Paragraph, and two authors whom he had hired to ask questions of the ghost
at nine shillings a night, were taking notes of the rappings and scratchings ..."
7. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"t Mr. Paragraph, and two authors whom he had hired to ask questions of the ghost
at nine shillings a night, were taking notes of the rappings and ..."
8. Civilized America by Thomas Colley Grattan (1859)
"... from Handwriting—The same result from mere Contact with the Paper—Remarkable
Instance of this Faculty— Discredit attached to Mesmerism—Spirit rappings. ..."
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