1810-1815, 1816-1860, American Antiquarian Society, Barking Exercise, Dancing Exercise, Falling Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Magazines & Newspapers, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Presbyterians, Running Exercise
“The phenomenon of…suddenly falling or sinking down, under religious exercises, has not been uncommon in times of great excitement…. But the bodily agitation called the jerks is a very different affection….”
1810-1815, Autobiographies & Biographies, Barking Exercise, Christians/Disciples of Christ, Falling Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Other Bodily Exercises & General References
“[N]ow I left for cincinati again and on my way heard of the New light Presbytarians…and heard all sort of bad reports a bout them they said that…they would fall and lay for hours and…others jerk backwards and forwards with somuch force that a ladys hair wold crack like a wip….”
