I can't help but notice klan hoods look like dunce caps, what's the history behind this outfit? :fnord:
Nothing. Originally they mostly wore sheets and masks.
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.
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. :fnord:
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I should write a novel to that effect.
Quote from: Doktor Phox on December 23, 2010, 11:23:21 PM
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I should write a novel to that effect.
Fuck yes.
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
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 23, 2010, 11:25:12 PM
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. :lol:
Quote from: Doktor Phox on December 23, 2010, 11:27:16 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 23, 2010, 11:25:12 PM
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. :lol:
His best talent is mixing fact and fiction.
They were supposed to be more like Santa hats, but their wives used too much starch when pressing them.