1816-1860, American Antiquarian Society, Anonymous/Unknown, Dancing Exercise, Magazines & Newspapers, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Other/Unknown
“The duration of this epidemic was much shorter than that of most of those in Europe. In a little more than a twelve-month, it had almost entirely disappeared…. It was to the scenes enacted at this time, we believe, that the epithet ‘Jerks’ was first applied.”
1816-1860, American Antiquarian Society, Anonymous/Unknown, Barking Exercise, Dancing Exercise, Dreams, Trances & Visions, Falling Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Magazines & Newspapers, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Other/Unknown
“I have frequently thought that a history of the singular exercises, called the “Jirks,” and other strange operations which affected the subjects of the great Kentucky Revival, would be interesting to my readers….”
1816-1860, 1861-1899, Anonymous/Unknown, Magazines & Newspapers, Other/Unknown
“The “jerks” were introduced during a protracted meeting in the township of Chelsea, in that county, in the fall of 1860….”