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# Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/19982/
- Published: 2011-06-30T06:36:55.000Z
- Updated: 2011-06-30T06:36:55.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

![pilgrim-ale](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/pilgrim-ale.jpg "pilgrim-ale")

Odd Names

[This blog post at NRO](http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269405/howdy-pilgrim-jay-nordlinger?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) about odd Puritan names ("Experience Bliss," "Thankful Clapp," "Moses Sleeper") reminded me of this passage from *A Renegade History of the United States*: "In 1864 Increase Mather set out to put an end to \[dancing\] with a precisely titled book, *An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing out of the Quiver of the Scriptures*." Increase condemned dancing, but not all forms. He approved of it when it was "sober and grave Dancing of Men with Men, or of Women with Women."