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Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed

Page, Charles Grafton, 1812-1868., Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress), Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · 1853 · New-York : D. Appleton and Company, 1853. · 1 picture

Psychomancy is an 1853 New York exposé of spirit-rapping and table-tipping by Charles Grafton Page, held in Library of Congress collections and aimed at general readers curious about spiritualist séances. The single engraving shows two seated men with hands resting on a plain table, a demonstration of how the sitters might move it themselves. For designers, the picture offers a crisp, hatched-shadow engraving style with clear figure poses and a plain wooden table, useful for period-authentic debunking or parlour-trick imagery.

Spiritualism · Table-moving (Spiritualism)

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