Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed (1853)
Page, Charles Grafton, 1812-1868., Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress), Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · New-York : D. Appleton and Company, 1853. · leaf 99
TABLE-TIPPINGS. 91 stretched straight out, as shown in the figure, and their hands locked, superposed, or placed in any way they please upon the table. Sitting with … the breast closely against the back of the chair is a convenient way of restraining the forward mo- tion. Now let them invoke the spirits, exert the will, let them cry out and howl, Belial won’t come, the table won’t move, for all the mediums of earth, and passive matter holds true to her law of…
Spiritualism · Table-moving (Spiritualism)
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