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My maternal family used to amuse themselves at times by table tapping (or table raising, actually). That is, they would sit at a card table, place their hands on it, and command the table to rise. Story goes that once they got the table nearly to the ceiling! However, I didn't see that, and by the time I was born, they had, apparently, given up the practice.
Since I found these family tales to be very interesting, I finally got my mom to agree to attempt to raise a table with me. We didn't have a card table, so we decided to use the coffee table. We sat on the floor and both of us placed our hands flat on the table and chanted "Rise, table! Rise, table!"
After about 15 minutes of chanting. the coffee table gave an great shudder--a movement that seemed to come from within the wood of the table itself, which was both unexpected and very creepy. My mom and I both gasped and pulled our hands off the table at once.
We never tried that trick again.
Has anyone else ever tried to tap or raise a table? Anyone succeeded?
Since I found these family tales to be very interesting, I finally got my mom to agree to attempt to raise a table with me. We didn't have a card table, so we decided to use the coffee table. We sat on the floor and both of us placed our hands flat on the table and chanted "Rise, table! Rise, table!"
After about 15 minutes of chanting. the coffee table gave an great shudder--a movement that seemed to come from within the wood of the table itself, which was both unexpected and very creepy. My mom and I both gasped and pulled our hands off the table at once.
We never tried that trick again.
Has anyone else ever tried to tap or raise a table? Anyone succeeded?