spirit-rappern.
/ˈspɪrɪtˌrapə/, U.S. /ˈspɪrᵻtˌræpər/ Now historical.
A person who claims to be able to receive communications from spirits in the form of rapping or knocking sounds. Cf. spirit rapping n.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > rapping or moving table (by spirit) > one who induces or believes in
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1851 Daily Free Democrat (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 8 Jan. The editor..visited our city, to look in upon the ‘spirit rappers’.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. ii. 165 Their pretensions deserve essentially no more respect than those of spirit-rappers.
1945 Agric. Hist. 19 37/2 Let those who will consult the spirit rappers to bring forth its ghost.
1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 May 537/1 The nineteenth-century American selves Kenny assembles are..a curious bunch of mystics, mediums, spirit-rappers and trance-speakers.
2010 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 18 Apr. e4/3 Maggie Fox..was widely known through her work as a spirit rapper, a completely fraudulent means of communicating with the dead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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