Personalities and Pranksters
Fun & Trickery in fraternal societies?
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, edited by Julia Suits, 2011.
Or in 2010, Catalog No. 439: Burlesque Paraphernalia and Side Degree Specialties and Costumes published by Fantagraphics Books. It is also a facsimile of a catalog of the DeMoulin Bros.'s "side degree" paraphernalia, but has a couple of introductory essays.
A DVD called, The Exemplary Masonic Library, available a few years back on ebay, has this catalogue plus many, many other useful items, mostly from and about Masonry as practiced in the US of A.
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, edited by Julia Suits, 2011.
Or in 2010, Catalog No. 439: Burlesque Paraphernalia and Side Degree Specialties and Costumes published by Fantagraphics Books. It is also a facsimile of a catalog of the DeMoulin Bros.'s "side degree" paraphernalia, but has a couple of introductory essays.
A DVD called, The Exemplary Masonic Library, available a few years back on ebay, has this catalogue plus many, many other useful items, mostly from and about Masonry as practiced in the US of A.
Spoofing a candidate with fake goat's blood.
Fraternal 'thumbnails' of well-known Australians below.
Ned Kelly
Quong Tart
Les Darcy
Don Bradman
Alfred Deakin
and more to come...
'Ned' Kelly's
famous sash,
un-identified until now,
is that of the Hibernian secret society, known in Australia as the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society.
famous sash,
un-identified until now,
is that of the Hibernian secret society, known in Australia as the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society.
Quong Tart,
enterprising and smart,
went from child translater
and odd-job boy on the 1850's gold-fields to rich and esteemed business man. Along the way, he was firstly a member of the AOF, then the IOOF, MU, and lastly the Freemasons,
all secret societies. He was, also, almost certainly a member of a Triad Society.
(See Chinese Fraternalism)
This has still to be researched.
enterprising and smart,
went from child translater
and odd-job boy on the 1850's gold-fields to rich and esteemed business man. Along the way, he was firstly a member of the AOF, then the IOOF, MU, and lastly the Freemasons,
all secret societies. He was, also, almost certainly a member of a Triad Society.
(See Chinese Fraternalism)
This has still to be researched.
When Les Darcy's body was brought back to Australia and was met in Sydney the 'honour guard' was made up of fellow-members of the Holy Catholic Guild, plus the INF (Irish National Foresters) and the HACBS (the Hibernians). His member's sash was buried with him.
From a young age, Alfred Deakin was interested in mysticism and spirituality, authoring in 1887 a book entitled, Temple and Tomb in India. He had been a 'Conductor', ie involved in the ritual of the Victorian Association of Progressive Spiritualists, and in 1891 chaired at least one meeting for Colonel HS Olcott, then International President of the Theosophical Society. After Federation, he maintained contact with Olcott and Annie Besant, former labour and women's rights activists, who succeeded Mme Blavatsky as Commander of Theosophy, world-wide, and helped establish Co-Masonry.
When Don Bradman was playing cricket, the sport was heavily dominated by Protestants and even Catholic umpires were given limited chances. Bradman was a Freemason and headed an anti-Catholic push within 'his' team.
Dulcie Deamer
