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On New Year's Eve 1831, the Cowbellion de Rakin Society, so named weeks earlier by Michael Krafft, held its first foot parade in Mobile. By 1840 the Cowbellion parade had become an ornate nighttime spectacle with floats illuminated by torches. The Cowbellions begat other New year's Eve secret mystic societies, including the Strikers and TDS, cementing Mobile's title as Mother of Mystics. The Mistick Krewe of Comus - the first New Orleans mystic society and the first one anywhere dedicated to Mardi Gras - was founded by a small group that included three former Mobilians who had been members of those New Year's Eve societies. Comus first paraded on Fat Tuesday 1857. It all came full circle when Mobilian Joseph Stillwell Cain was inspired by a Comus parade in New Orleans. he formed the Lost Cause Minstrels, and they, along with Mobile's first Mardi Gras mystic society, the Order of the Myths, paraded through the Port city's streets on Fat Tuesday 1868.
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