“What wickedness takes place during this feast; fortune-tellings, divinations, deceptions and feigned madnesses. On this day, having been seized up by the furies of their bacchant-like ravings and having been inflamed by the fires of diabolical instigation, they flock together to the church and profane the house of god with vain and foolish rhythmic poetry in which sin is not wanting but by all means present, and with evil sayings, laughing and cacophony they disrupt the priest and the whole congregation applauds for the people love these things.” – Richard of St.-Victor, Sermones centum 177.1036
Fun quote; but I have to say, that image is hot, hot, HAWT! I don’t know what it is about it that makes me think that…though the masks have to do with some of it, I think. It’s amazing how a mask can put the focus on some part of the face that one would ordinarily not notice immediately…
masks are good for that.