shadow-pantomime

Updated: May 1, 2025

Then there was a shadow-pantomime, where immaterial roisterers "played Injun," and went through the horrid details of scalping and murders, with grotesque concomitant circumstances, such as the terrifying ricochet effects on an unsophisticated red-man of riving a buzz-wig from the head of his victim in lieu of a real scalp, and the consequent sudden exchange of the characters of pursued and pursuer, all of which, oddly enough, the people who stood in imminent danger of a horrible fate thought very funny indeed.

Mary Noailles Murfree - The Story of Old Fort Loudon