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The KKK? I thought they burnt crosses:confused:


Indeed.

I’ve always wondered about those Klan-like costumes in Spanish religious processions. Those creepy pointed hoods are called capriotes, and there is a tenuous link to the KKK.

In New Orleans during the period between the Rebellion of 1768 and the abolishment of the Spanish cabildo, the more risqué Mardi Gras celebrations of the traditionally French Catholic residents were strictly curtailed by incoming Spanish clergy. The anti-Catholic second Ku Klux Klan that arose at the beginning of the twentieth century may have modeled part of their regalia and insignia on the capirote and sanbenito as a sardonic nod to the enforcement of these restrictions on masquerades a century earlier.[citation needed]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote
 
And I've wondered about the origin of the capirote - this is quite a good short explanation,
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170413-this-white-hood-carries-many-meanings
essentially they go back (as I rather thought) to the auto da fe costume worn by those condemned by the Inquisition.
What I didn't know was that some flagellants took to wearing them as marks of their voluntary self-abasement,
and that led onto them being used in religious processions
 
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