[…]all stand up in the middle of the floor, and when the "sperichil" is struck up, begin first walking and by-and-by shuffling round, one after the other, in a ring.
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[…]all stand up in the middle of the floor, and when the "sperichil" is struck up, begin first walking and by-and-by shuffling round, one after the other, in a ring.
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Sperichil. Among the Negroes, particularly of South Carolina and Georgia, spiritual, or spiritual shouting when at prayer, when all unite.
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The praise meeting usually opened with a "sperichi" followed by a hymn which the leader "deaconed out" two lines at a time[…]
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