“History of the ‘Jirks’” in the New York Telescope (February 18, 1826)

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….”