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Klansmen, rural Connecticut. The initiation began with a cross-burning ceremony, a hodgepodge of biblical references and
homespun ritual, describing the fire as a cleansing force that will purify the white race. A single torch-bearing klansman
stood as a member of a circle around the unlit cross, and his colleagues filed past him, each lighting their torches. After some
more chanting and Busby-Berkleyesque synchronized torch waving, the officiating klansman bellowed, "Klansmen, to the cross!" at which point
they all lunged to the center of the circle and dashed their torches at its gasoline-soaked base.
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