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Meanwhile, the extraordinary similarity of savage and classical spiritualistic rites, with the corresponding similarity of alleged modern phenomena, raises problems which it is more easy to state than to solve. For example, such occurrences as 'rappings, as the movement of untouched objects, as the lights of the seance room, are all easily feigned.
No answer was returned, and it was not until after repeated rappings, and the patience of the strangers was becoming exhausted, and they had begun to consult respecting bursting open the door, when some one was heard moving and growling at the disturbance of his slumbers. "Who is there?" he demanded, impatiently.
Unless we did so the SEANCE would fail. Before entering the room, I secretly arranged with Mr. Ionides, who shared my scepticism, that we should sit side by side; and so each have one hand free. It is not necessary to relate what passed between the unhappy mother and the medium, suffice it to say that she put questions to her son; and the medium interpreted the rappings which came in reply.
Cracklings, snappings, as of a fire-log, arose from the carpet. Rappings resounded from the walls. The piano began to thrill as if a roguish child were thumping it. "That's my little boy," whispered Mrs. Lambert. Clarke shut off the light above his head till it was but a faint point of yellow light, and then a hand, firm and broad, was laid for an instant on Serviss's shoulder.
The cabinet, as you may have noticed, is in a corner of the room with one side along the hallway. The ghost must have been in the hall." "But who was it?" "Not so fast, Walter," laughed Craig. "Isn't it enough for one night that we have found out that much?" Fortunately I was tired, or I certainly should have dreamed of rappings and of "John" that night.
The 'Spirit Rappings' during the evening, aside from those heard during the test with the glass tumblers, were apparently confined to the floor-space in the immediate vicinity of, and directly beneath the table described around which the company were seated in the order here stated. Mr. Next, upon Mr. Sellers' right and at the side of the table, sat Mr. Pepper, and Mr.
He was superior to superstitious fancies, and all the rappings and scratchings of spirit-land would have failed to disturb his equanimity. He was a strictly practical man one of those men who are always ready, with a stump of lead-pencil and the back of a letter, to reduce everything in creation to figures.
Whatever the rappings have been and the colored man says they began when the family went west three months ago they are likely to stop now." Which shows how much he knew about it. The ghost was not laid: with the murder of Arnold Armstrong he, or it, only seemed to take on fresh vigor. Mr.
Lyon's gift to Home, for the evidence only proved, as the judge held, that the gift was prompted, at least to some extent, by what Home declared to be spiritual rappings. But the only actual witness to the fact, Mrs. Lyon herself, was the reverse of a trustworthy witness, being a foolish capricious underbred woman. The cases of Sir David Brewster and of Dr.
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. Now it so happened that on the night Mrs. Vandam was taken ill, he had retired I believe in another part of the house, where he has a regular seance-room.
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