ABSTRACT
A psychopathological epidemic that has seized Canadian Dukhobors and that almost ended tragically for many of them is interesting. According to the news printed in Temps, Dukhobors, before leaving for “the trip to the East,” released all their cattle, wishing not to oppress any living creature. For a long time before the trip, Dukhobors had done the heavy work in their villages with striking patience. Then, suddenly caught in an irrepressible mobilization, they left their villages and went on the pilgrimage. Whether the sectarians believed their leader or acted according to their own reasoning, people from a few villages were coming in linen shirts, barefooted and bareheaded. In Yorktown, which the Dukhobors reached on the 15th of October, the women and children, 1,060 people in total, were taken away by force, and the men, numbering 800, were permitted to continue further.
