1816-1860, Christians/Disciples of Christ, Magazines & Newspapers
“I saw several young ladies…, who began to be uncommonly exercised…. It appeared to mortify and embarrass them very much, when they had ‘the power’ as it was called…. [T]heir shoulders would be seized with violent and sudden convulsions, the neck, also, would be affected with spasms, which threw back the head in a frightful manner….”
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, Dancing Exercise, Magazines & Newspapers, Methodists
“The character of this revival is the least mixed with what is called irregularities or extravangancies of any that I ever saw. We have had nothing of what is called the jirks or dance among us….”
