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Outstretched hands during a Carnival parade.

Floats on their way to a parade during the Carnival season.

Mobile first celebrated Carnival in 1703 when French settlers began the festivities at the Old Mobile Site. Mobile’s first informal Carnival society was organized in 1711 with the Boeuf Gras Society (Fatted Ox Society). Since that time mystic societies have evolved into much more complex organizations and membership has been formed by various social groups, originally based in class and related alignments. More recently some groups have formed as co-workers, bachelors, women, African Americans, Jews, married women, married couples, gays and lesbians, or open membership, including visitors.

Mobile’s Cowbellion de Rakin Society was the first formally organized and masked mystic society in the United States to celebrate with a parade in 1830. The Cowbellions got their start when a cotton factor from Pennsylvania, Michael Krafft, no doubt influenced by Swedish and German traditions in the Philadelphia area, began a parade with rakes, hoes, and cowbells. The Cowbellions introduced horse-drawn floats to the parades in 1840 with a parade entitled, eathen Gods and Goddesses. The Striker’s Independent Society was formed in 1842 and is the oldest surviving mystic society in the United States. The idea of mystic societies was exported to New Orleans in 1856 when six businessmen, three who were formerly of Mobile, gathered at a club room in New Orlean’s French Quarter to organize a secret society, inspired by the Cowbellion de Rakin Society, that would observe Mardi Gras with a formal parade. They founded New Orleans’ first and oldest krewe, the Mistick Krewe of Comus. Carnival celebrations in Mobile were cancelled during the American Civil War.

Mardi Gras parades were revived in Mobile after the War Between the States by Joe Cain in 1867, when he paraded through the city streets on Fat Tuesday while costumed as a fictional Chickasaw chief named Slacabamorinico. He irreverently celebrated the day in front of occupation Union Army troops. The Order of Myths, Mobile’s oldest mystic society which continues to parade, was founded in 1867 and held its first parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868. The Infant Mystics also begin to parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868, but later moved its parade to Lundi Gras (Fat Monday). The Mobile Carnival Association (MCA) was formed in 1871 to coordinate the events of Mardi Gras; this year also saw the first Royal Court held with the first king of Carnival, Emperor Felix I. The Comic Cowboys of Wragg Swamp were established in 1884, along with their mission of satire and free expression. The Continental Mystic Crew mystic society was founded in 1890, it was Mobile’s first Jewish mystic society. The Order of Doves mystic society was founded in 1894 and held its first Mardi Gras ball. It was the first organized African-American mystic society in Mobile. The first mystic of women was the M.W.M who held its first and likely only ball in 1890 and the first women’s society to parade in the streets of Mobile was the Order of Polka Dots who rolled in 1950 just one night before its friendly rivals, the Maids of Mirth (MOMs).

The Infant Mystics, the second oldest society that continues to parade, introduced the first electric floats to Mobile in 1929. The Colored Carnival Association was founded and had its first parade of societies in 1939; it was later named the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA). The Mobile Colored Carnival Association (now called the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association or MAMGA) installed the first African-American Mardi Gras court in 1940 with the coronation of King Elexis I and his queen. It coordinates events of African-American mystic societies. Following the lead of the little known and non-defunct Krewe of Pan and Apostles of Apollo, societies composed of the city’s gay and lesbian community, the Order of Osiris held its first ball in 1980. It is now one of the Carnival season’s most anticipated balls and sought-after invitation.

The Mobile International Carnival Ball was first held in 1995, with every known Mobile mystic society in attendance. The Order of Outowners mystic society was founded in 2001 with the mission of being a more modern and inclusive society than the traditional ones, and offers ball tickets for sale to the general public. Le Krewe De Bienville (LKDB) exists as Mobile’s only civic and charitable organization with a mission statement to promote Mobile and its Mardi Gras. In 2009 the LKDB hosted the USS Hawes on its visit to Mobile. It also sponsors a fishing trip for children from foster homes and visits nursing homes and hospitals, bringing Mardi Gras to those who are unable to participate.

A documentary film, The Order of Myths (2008), reveals the Mardi Gras preparations and celebrations, the beauties and joys, as well as the complex racial history of the city and its mystic societies.

Past and present societies

Some of the mystic societies in Mobile (not all-inclusive):

Apostles of Apollo

Belles and Beaux

Blue Birds

Boeuf Gras Society

Cain Merry Widows

Comic Cowboys

Comrades Club

Conde Cavaliers

Conde Explorers

Continental Mystic Crew

Court of Isabella

Cowbellion de Rakin Society

Crewe of Columbus

Dominoes

Don Donas

Emeralds

Etruscans

Fifty Funny Fellows

Follies

Followers of Apolla

Forty-Niners

Harlequins

Imperial Fun Makers

Independent Fun Lovers

Infant Mystics

Jokers Wild

Kickshaw Society

Knights of Daze

Knights of Ebony

Knights of Folly

Knights of Glory

Knights of Joy

Knights of May Zulu Club

Knights of Mobile

Knights of Pegasus

Knights of Revelry

Krewe of Admiral Semmes

Krewe of Columbus

Krewe of Don Q

Krewe of Elks

Krewe of Marry Mates

Krewe of Mohomet

Krewe of Pan

Krewe of Venus

La Luna Servante

Le Krewe de Bienville

Les Bons Vivants

Les Femmes Cassettes

Maids of Mirth

Marquis de Lafayette Societie

Mardi Gras Pilgrims

Merry Evening Maskers

MiKrafft Association (MKA)

Midnight Maskers

Midnight Merry Makers

Midnight Mystics

Mistresses of Joe Cain

Mobile Married Mystics

Mobile Mystics

Mobile Rifles

Monday Evening Maskers

Monday Mystics

Mystic Krewe of Myrthe

Mystic Krewsaders

Mystic Maskers

Mystic Stripers Society

Mobile’s Mystical Ladies

Mystics

Mystics of Time

Mystical Belles

Neptune’s Daughters

Nereides

New Mobilians

Order of Angels

Order of Athena

Order of Butterfly Maidens

Order of Dead Rock Stars

Order of Doves

Order of Dragons

Order of Druids

Order of Imps

Order of Inca

Order of Isis

Order of Jesters

Order of Juno

Order of LaShe’s (sic.)

Order of Mardi Gras Maskers

Order of Myths

Order of Orioles

Order of Osiris

Order of Outowners

Order of Polka Dots

Order of Venus

Original Social Utopia Club

Pharaohs

Phifty Phunny Phellows

Pierrettes

Resurrected Cowbellion de Rakin Society

S.C.S. aka Santa Claus Society

Sauvettes Social Club

Sirens

Sons and Daughters of Joe Cain

Sons of Cyreniac

Sons of Saturn

Spinsters

Strikers Club

Striker’s Independent Society

Strikers Social Club

Tea Drinker Society

Thalians

The Tillmans Tricksters

The Tombstone Kids

Utopia Club

References

^ a b c d e f g h “”Mardi Gras Terminology”". “Mobile Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau”. http://www.mobile.org/vis_mardigras_terms.php. Retrieved 2007-11-28.

^ Houston, Susan (2007-02-04). “Mobile; It Has History”. The News & Observer (News & Observer Publishing Company, (Raleigh, NC)).

^ a b c d e f g “”Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline”". “The Museum of Mobile”. http://www.museumofmobile.com/html/mardi_gras_timeline.php. Retrieved 2007-11-14.

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l “”History”". “Mobile Carnival Museum”. http://www.mobilecarnivalmuseum.com/History.aspx. Retrieved 2007-11-17.

^ “Carnival/Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline” (list of events by year), Museum of Mobile, 2001, webpage: MoM-timeline.

^ a b “”Mardi Gras – Mobile’s Paradoxical Party”". “The Wisdom of Chief Slacabamorinico”. http://jacksonsnyder.com/arc/slac/MardiGras/paradox.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-18.

^ Arthur B. LaCour, New Orleans Masquerade: Chronicles of Carnival (Pelican Publishing 1952)

^ “Joe Cain Articles” (newspaper story), Joe Danborn & Cammie East, Mobile Register, 2001, webpage: CMW-history.

^ a b “”MAMGA History”". “Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association”. http://web.archive.org/web/20040604100834/www.mamga.org/Templates/history.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-18.

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