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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Note 143 — Chapter IV · SYMPATHY.

B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation

Idem. p. 498. These are the Barkers. Numerous other convulsive Methodistical sects abound in North America. The Shakers, who are inimical to marriage, would also have been mentioned, were not their contortions much less violent than those of the Jumpers.—See Grégoire, tome v. p. 195. Evans, p. 267.

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