Thursday, August 18, 2005
Masonic Torture Catalog
You may or may not know that initiation into Masonic lodges (and their various degrees) involve many sophomoric pranks most commonly associated with fraternities. What I did not know was that there were catalogs offering such pranks. Here is one such example--the 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Fraternal Supply Catalog No. 439--that gives not only a spectacular selection of humliation techniques for initiates, but, through them, a glance into the world of the Fraternity and Lodge.