This type of spirit contact was in vogue when table-tipping, cabinet-knocking, and the like were parlor games in the late 1900s. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)
He was not much thrilled when Mrs. Frink, a small twittering woman, proposed that they “try and do some spiritualism and table-tipping — you know Chum can make the spirits come — honest, he just scares me!” ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Knew all this table-tipping nonsense would come to no good,” Colonel Mering said. ❋ Willis, Connie (1997)
He was not much thrilled when Mrs. Frink, a small twittering woman, proposed that they ` ` try and do some spiritualism and table-tipping -- you know Chum can make the spirits come -- honest, he just scares me! '' ❋ Unknown (1922)
Communication should be established with the "haunting spirits," if possible, by means of raps, table-tipping, etc. The character of the phenomena should be studied, and the _physical_ separated from the ❋ Hereward Carrington (1919)
He was not much thrilled when Mrs. Frink, a small twittering woman, proposed that they "try and do some spiritualism and table-tipping -- you know Chum can make the spirits come -- honest, he just scares me!" ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
His specialties were the introduction of a great variety of articles -- apports as they are called -- at his sittings, levitation, table-tipping and automatic writing and the direct voice. ❋ Gaius Glenn Atkins (1912)
Later he was to become a Spiritualist and preside at table-tipping seances. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
I confess that I haven't much confidence in "mejums," who find employment for the shades of G. Washington, J. Cæsar, and others of that ilk, at table-tipping, slate-writing and such unproductive enterprises; nor in the class of spooks who "materialize" in dark rooms, come prancing out of "cabinets" and other uncanny corporeal incubators for no other apparent purpose than to enable their mundane manipulators to realize two dollars in the coin of the realm. ❋ Unknown (1905)
He made a long and complicated study of table-tipping in 1853, and published his conclusions in two large volumes in Paris a year later. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
"A seance in table-tipping?" asked his sister coldly. ❋ Unknown (1899)
We have now come to the closing section of this already long essay, -- namely, to the explanation of such phenomena as table-tipping, spirit rapping and dictation, and distant transmission of thought. ❋ Various (1888)
Mortal mind produces table-tipping as certainly as table-setting, and believes that this wonder emanates from spirits and elec - ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)
Page 267 glories of table-tipping, horn-blowing, and the other modern improvements in the mode of consulting such as have familiar spirits: for, although these boast that they number a million or so of adherents in the more enlightened Free States, we suspect they could hardly drum up in the entire South one thousand fools credulous enough to embrace their miserable dogmas. ❋ Unknown (1860)
A few professors of the college, noted for the paradoxical character of their minds; a few lovers of the marvellous, who had been duly convicted of table-tipping; and, to top off with a half dozen of those old white-moustached grumblers who believe that the death of Napoleon I. is ❋ Edmond About (1856)
Tables would tip (in a process rather unimaginatively called table-tipping) as either fraudulent psychics resorted to trickery, using everything from hidden wires to covert associates to make objects appear to move untouched. ❋ Unknown (2009)
