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The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Masking In Darkness: The Axeman of New Orleans, Pt.1

The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, History

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Join me as I tell part 1 of the story of New Orlean's history, it's complicated relationship with race and immigration, its soul and joy, and how one masked himself in darkness to terrorize the city.

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Recalling the time you spent at Mardi Gras in 1835, author James R. Creasy wrote,

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Shrugged Tuesday is a day to be remembered by strangers in New Orleans.

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For that is a day for fun, frolic and comic masquerading.

1:19.0

All of the mischief of this city is alive and wide awake in active operation.

1:24.0

Men and boys, women and girls, bond and free, white and black, yellow and brown, exert themselves to invent and appear in grotesque,

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quizzical, diabolic, horrible, strange masks and disguises.

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Human bodies are seen with heads of beasts and birds, beasts and birds with human heads, demi-beasts, demi-fishes.

1:46.0

Snakes heads and bodies with arms of apes, man vets from the moon, mermaids, satires, beggars, monks and robbers parade and march on foot,

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on horseback, in wagons, carts, coaches, cars, etc.

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In rich confusion up and down the streets, wildly shouting, singing, laughing, drumming, fiddling, bifing,

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