Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Religion

    The narrator describes his 'experience in the practise [sic] of Spirit Rapping in connection with the Tables' and wryly points out that the 'Satanic agency' possesses cheap furniture, as shown by its tendency to groan and split its sides. Unlike the 'Clerical Table Turners', who 'seem to imagine that the Satanic agency is confined to a particular kind of furniture', believes it can inhabit a wide range of domestic hardware.