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Good Afternoon Beryl,
Nope ..... not Skull & Bones..... The S&B ritual takes place in
indoors.....in room 322.
Wesley
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So THAT'S what they do in Skull and Crossbones!!!
Beryl
On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:55 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> Good Afternoon Jamie,
> The best initiation ceremony that I ever was involved in -- as an
> initiate -- still in my teens (so the timeframe would be just before
> the Bronze Age).....I won't say the name of the organization -- but it
> was/is a "legit" organization...... Here it is.....
> Out in the woods at a "secret location"; the initiates in a circle,
> surrounding a large campfire; it took place at midnight; the initiates
> standing in a circle around the campfire (providing the only light for
> the ceremony); the ceremony leader has a very large, shiny knife,
> which was highly polished and reflected the light of the campfire;
> initiates remain silent (unable to talk for 24 hours prior and during
> the ceremony); 24 hour fasting the day of the ceremony; the ceremony
> leader begins, one-by-one, "cutting" the outstretched palms of the
> initiates with the knife (when you get "cut" -- and only at that
> moment -- you find out that the shiny knife is very dull), while pig
> blood, or beef blood was dripped, via a small blood-soaked hidden
> sponge, secretly hidden in the knife-holder's hand; after the hands
> were "cut" (it looked real); in fact it looked so real, that I thought
> I was actually going to get my hands cut open; the initiates held
> hands, creating a chain of blood-brother, intermingling their blood
> with each other; as your hands were being "cut"......other ceremony
> leaders whispered the translation of "secret/magic" words, that we had
> heard earlier, but prior to this moment, we didn't know their
> meaning....... I could go on, but you get the idea.......
> I will never forget that moment.
> Best Wishes for Success!
> Wesley
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:33 PM
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> Subject: Youth "Initiation" Ceremonies...?
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> Hi all,
>
> I run out-of-school programs for ~120 local teens at Yale's Peabody
> Museum of Natural History in New Haven, CT. We recruit new 9th and
> 10th graders at the beginning of each academic year. This year our
> senior class will be developing an "initiation ceremony" event to
> welcome these new students to our community. We're looking for some
> gross/[slightly] creepy experiences we can run them through. Given
> that we have vast collections, I'm already looking into something
> involving jars of ooky things but thought I'd run this up the ISEN
> flagpole to see if anyone out there might have done something similar.
> Any and all ideas welcome
> - thanks in advance!
>
> Everything best,
>
> Jamie Alonzo
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