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He was present upon serious business, in fact, nothing short of assisting at a séance. A medium had been secured, the proceedings began, rappings became audible, an intelligence desired to communicate, and, finally, there was a message, with a name given. It was Luciabel, "whom you know as Lucifer."
Spirit rappings beguiled or awed the villagers; thousands of religious zealots in 1844 abandoned their vocations and, drawing on white robes, awaited expectantly the second coming of Christ; every cult from free love to celibate austerity found zealous followers; the "new woman" declared her independence in short hair and bloomers; people sought social salvation in new health codes, in vegetarian boarding-houses, and in physical culture clubs; and some pursued the way to perfection through sensual religious exercises.
Mistress de Chavasse knew full well that the Endicotts did not intend to quarrel with her, and having threatened rupture unless her commands were obeyed, she had no wish to argue the matter further with her henchwoman. At that moment, too, there came the sound of significant and methodical rappings at the door.
"By George!" said Bertram softly. "So the spirit-wand of bamboo was a blow-gun! What led you to that, Average?" "The spirit rappings, which the talky woman in the Bellair Street apartment used to hear. That and the remnants of putty I found near the window. You see the doors opening through the whole length of the apartment gave a long range, where Mr. er Smith could practice.
Leidy: Is any Spirit present whom I know, or who knows me? After a pause of ten seconds, three light raps are heard. Dr. Leidy: Who am I? The Medium explains that the responses by rappings are mainly indicative only of affirmation or negation. Dr. Leidy: Will you repeat your taps to indicate that you are present yet? Three taps are heard. Mr. Sellers: Those are very clearly heard. Seybert? Dr.
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. There is a limit to what you can do the first time you enter a man's house, and, besides, that was no time to arouse suspicion in the mind of anyone. But science has a way out of every dilemma. I determined to learn something of these rappings."
At first there was no response, but after repeated rappings some one moved within, and in a moment the door opened and a voice called to us, "Come, come out of the snow. It is a nasty night." Without further preliminaries we stepped into the shelter of the broad, com- fortable hall.
The journals have been filled with jesting and speculation upon the subject, mountebank tricksters and shrewd professors have plied their keenest wits to discover the processes of the rappings and Mrs.
Found there the Marquis de M., whose book on the spiritual rappings comes out next week. We conversed on the rappings ad nauseam. By the way, her ladyship rents the Hotel de la Rochefoucauld, in the Rue de Varenne, Faubourg St. Germain. St. Germain is full of these princely, aristocratic mansions. Mournfully beautiful desolately grand. Such a magnificent forest scene in the very heart of Paris!
When we complicate the subject still farther by considering what connection such things as rappings, apparitions, poltergeists, spirit-photographs, and materializations may have with it, the bosh end of the scale gets heavily loaded, it is true, but your genuine inquirer still is loath to give up. He lets the data collect, and bides his time.
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