There were twenty-one of them.

They wore a long, light-colored loose robe that hung to their heels.

Each in his turn went up to the priest (they were all within a large circular railing) and bowed profoundly and then went spinning away deliriously and took his appointed place in the circle, and continued to spin.

When all had spun themselves to their places, they were about five or six feet apart--and so situated, the entire circle of spinning pagans spun itself three separate times around the room.

It took twenty-five minutes to do it.