Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed / by Charles G. Page.

  • Page, Charles Grafton, 1812-1868.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed / by Charles G. Page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ping the table? the thoughts of sacrilege vanished, and were immediately supplanted by an irresistible sense of the ridiculous, and the smile and the laugh rose above all convictions of solemnity or irrever- ence. Will the spirits please to tip the table? was again and again reiterated, but no table tipped for us. Perhaps we are not mediums said one. The spirits have declared that I am a medium, said another; but that Great Exorcist, common sense, was present and prevalent on this occasion; and the spirits would not communicate, and the table would not tip, certainly not, of itself. We introduced every variety of manipulation of cross- ing hands, interlocking fingers, and, in spite of all, and the most patient persistence, the table proved true to its lifeless character, and the universal law that matter is inert, and cannot move of itself What could have been the cause of this abortive conjuration ? Were the spirits present, and not disposed to gratify a certain class of dilettanti who were present ? Were they jesting and teazing, or in bad humor with our persons, our fixtures, or our espionage ? For we had heard from very respect- able sources, of the spirits jesting and taunting