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table rapping

/ˈteɪbəl ˈræpɪŋ/

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/ˈteɪbəl ˈræpɪŋ/formalobsolete
  • ruИсторическая спиритуалистическая практика, когда участники садятся вокруг стола и пытаются общаться с духами с помощью стука или постукиваний, якобы производимых столом, часто ассоциируемая с сеансами XIX века.

A historical spiritualist practice where participants sit around a table and attempt to communicate with spirits through rapping or knocking sounds supposedly produced by the table, often associated with 19th-century séances.

  1. Spiritualist practiceC1formal

    A method of communication with spirits, where participants sit around a table and interpret knocks or raps as responses from the dead.

    ruСтоловерчение

    • During the séance, they attempted table rapping to contact the spirit world.
    • Table rapping was a popular form of entertainment in Victorian spiritualist circles.
    • The medium claimed that the raps were answers from a deceased relative.