These knockings could easily be transmitted through boards, and the curtains tossed about, and books and candlesticks flung across the room, by having horsehair attached to them.
At midday the cause of these effects would announce its approach by amazing and loud knockings in some apartment or other of the house, above stairs or below, as might happen.
The disturbances, which had been limited to occasionalknockings throughout February and March, gradually increased towards the close of the latter month, both in loudness and frequency.
She did so, and from that time she began to hear noises and knockings in her bedroom, the same room which was afterwards occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fox.
During the next month however (January, 1848) the noises began to assume the character of slight knockings heard at night in the bedroom; sometimes appearing to sound from the cellar beneath.
The knockings on the table and the banging of tambourines are, as I have proved over and over again, invariably the work either of the medium himself or of confederates amongst the audience.
They had heard knockings and the most appalling thuds ever since we had gone out; and on entering our room (No.
The knockings still continued and distant sounds heard as of some one coming upstairs and turning the handles of all the room doors.
The oddknockings in the roof I frequently heard myself.
The knockings which I have mentioned at the nursery door, preceded generally by the sound of a step on the lobby, meanwhile continued.
While he was in prison in the month of October some mysterious knockings at the door supplied him with a fulfilment and explanation of the portents lately chronicled.
The knockings appeared furthermore to warn him of approaching death, and he began to bewail his misery; but, having gathered courage, he heartened himself to face his doom, which could be nothing worse than death.
Mysterious knockings and unaccountable noises were indicative of the death of a relative.
The disturbed persons firmly believed that, in one way or another, the knockings had reference to their friend's death.
Five knocks were given in response, which were the last knockingsheard before next day.
These knockings sent a thrill of joy through the breasts of the brave men.
Nobody seems to have noted this, but one unusually sensible correspondent of a newspaper quoted cases of knockings from Baxter's Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits, and thought that Baxter's popular book might have suggested the imposture.
The knockings which herald a death are attributed to the Lares, a kind of petty mischievous demons unattached.
Knockings were heard all over the room; in chairs, in tables, under the floor, and along the wainscot.
The experiment of seizing the knees as quickly as possible, when the knockings first commenced, was tried several times, but always with the effect of putting an immediate quietus upon the demonstrations.
In resuming the usual position on the sofa, the feet resting on the floor, the knockings soon began to be heard.
Knockings were heard at the foot of the bed and behind it.
The next night, while in their chamber, they heard knockings under their feet, while no person was in the chamber at the time, nor in the room below.
Susannah and Ann were one evening below stairs in the dining room and heard knockings at the door and overhead.
Mr. Wesley and his brother clergyman went into the nursery, where the knockings were heard.
Knockings were heard under the table; latches of doors were moved up and down as the members of the family approached them.
An English gentleman once died, and his heir, in a day or two, heard of mysterious knockingswhich the frightened servants attributed to the defunct.
Then the jangling of bells, and clanking of chains, and flashes of light; then thumpings and knockings of all sorts came along, interspersed with shrieks and groans.
Perpetual knockings at Thy door, tears sullying Thy transparent rooms," are words that go deep and touch the heart of things.
Presently there were loud knockings at the door, to which no attention whatever was vouchsafed by the smiling Chinee; and when the knockings were varied by angry exclamations from our friends outside, his face became blander still.
In a shop the traders squat smoking on the mat, grin, prostrate themselves with head-knockings on your entrance, offer a cup of tea and a pipe, and consider that all has been done that may in fairness be required of them.
Knockings or 'raps' on furniture, walls, floors, or on the experimenters themselves.
He had scarcely seated himself when violent knockings resounded on the floor; this person, honourable, well-educated and intelligent, is one of the most remarkable sensitives I have met with.
It need not be added, however, that the two symptoms are not necessarily of the same nature; generally the mechanical knockings precede the development of ecstatic visions.
The child had a habit of falling asleep at all hours; at once mysterious knockings began to perform a dance or a march, and continued daily for more than an hour.
In a large number of cases such phenomena appear in connection with persons who suffer of some nervous disease, and then the knockings are, of course, produced unconsciously, and may be accompanied by evidences of exceptional powers.
She fancied that a black man with a red shawl produced the knockings and delivered the speeches.
A sound like the ringing of glasses was frequently heard, as were footsteps and knockings on the walls.
What to do, however, she knew not, and fumed and fretted the entire morning, until upon his reappearance at noon the knockingsbroke out again.
But with his advent, and she shuddered at the remembrance, the knockings had begun.
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