What is "rappings"

Usage examples of "rappings".

The old man believes so thoroughly in rappings and materialisations that he constantly keeps a notebook in his pocket in which he records all the materialisations he thinks he sees and the rappings he hears, along with the time and place.

The original rappings may have been a mere coincidence with the fact of the condition of Mrs.

With difficulty he took up the thread of the conversation where the rappings had broken it.

At precisely twelve-thirty we heard most unaccountable rappings from that cabinet.

I had heard of these rappings before we went, but was afraid that it would be impossible for me to catch the ghost red handed.

Don't forget that your rappings announced the death of one of your victims and urged the other, a cruelly wronged and credulous old man, to leave millions to you who had deceived and would have killed him.

Do you really take the business of manifestations and spirit voices and table rappings seriously?