Meaning of sperichil | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of spiritual (“African-American Christian religious song”)

alt-of, alternative, archaic, rare

Examples

“[…]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.”

“Sperichil. Among the Negroes, particularly of South Carolina and Georgia, spiritual, or spiritual shouting when at prayer, when all unite.”

“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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