Spirit-rapping in India.
The Bombay papers contain accounts of a mania for spirit-rapping which they say has set in among the natives there. If the statements are correct, it would not be surprising if the mania ran through India. Everything connected with the spirit world is a profound mystery to the native of India. He has no definite ideas as to the future. He confesses at once that it may be this or that – he knows not what. a city with golden pavement astonishes him, but, really, the definiteness is what puzzles him. If spirit-rapping finds its way among such a people we shall have queer revelations by and by. They will intesify a hundredfold all the mysteries, and will make a thousand more. Religion will not stand in the way in the slightest degree. A Hindoo is free to examine anything on the face of the earth, and speculate to his heart’s content.
Bradford Daily Telegraph, 20th September 1872.