FAO Dan Brown & other symbol spags

[the last yatto]

I can't help but notice klan hoods look like dunce caps, what's the history behind this outfit? 

[Adios]

Nothing. Originally they mostly wore sheets and masks.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The Klan originally dressed the way they do in order to pretend to be the ghosts of Confederate soldiers and scare black people during the Reconstruction period.

[Phox]

I think you guys are missing the point:

The klansmen dressed in pointed hoods because their founder, Nathan Bedford Forrest was often made towear a dunce hat and sit in the corner  of his one room school house in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. it was here that he discovered a secret passage built by the Illuminati and the Vatican, and the hat was the key to the giant marble gate to the secret treasure. 

[the last yatto]

[Phox]

 

I should write a novel to that effect.

[Adios]

I should write a novel to that effect.

Fuck yes.

[Adios]

Use this Phoxy.

The origins of the use of the costume are unclear, the contemporary white gown with a cone hat follows the Spanish Roman Catholic "Nazareno" tradition. Such garments have been traditionally used in festivities such as Holy Week, symbolizing the act of penance. In Spain and its former colonies, the pointed hat is called "Capirote".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_regalia_and_insignia

[Phox]

Use this Phoxy.

The origins of the use of the costume are unclear, the contemporary white gown with a cone hat follows the Spanish Roman Catholic "Nazareno" tradition. Such garments have been traditionally used in festivities such as Holy Week, symbolizing the act of penance. In Spain and its former colonies, the pointed hat is called "Capirote".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_regalia_and_insignia

Nah, that's too close to reality. I want to write a Dan Brown novel. 

[Adios]

Use this Phoxy.

The origins of the use of the costume are unclear, the contemporary white gown with a cone hat follows the Spanish Roman Catholic "Nazareno" tradition. Such garments have been traditionally used in festivities such as Holy Week, symbolizing the act of penance. In Spain and its former colonies, the pointed hat is called "Capirote".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_regalia_and_insignia

Nah, that's too close to reality. I want to write a Dan Brown novel. 

His best talent is mixing fact and fiction.

[AFK]

They were supposed to be more like Santa hats, but their wives used too much starch when pressing them.