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66 Examples: Sometimes ears of corn, tomatoes, and popcorn are used for decorations. Over entrance to room where guests are seated during performance, place a large motto,

Station two Sable Sisters at main entrance to house to receive flowers (two of a kind to be given by each unmarried woman in attendance) and the regular fee for admission, if the affair is for charity, church, or school benefit. (The Sable Sisters are gowned in black from head to foot and have their hair streaming about shoulders and faces.)

As guests enter house they give required fee to Sable Sisters. If married they pass to room where they are to enjoy performance. Unmarried guests are escorted by Ghosts to rooms where Ghosts in attendance request them to remove wraps and to don garments of "The Realms of Shade" (white sheets). They enter hall and are met by Mephistopheles (a man gowned in brilliant red from head to toe), who escorts them to room where guests are seated.

As guests enter room they are greeted with groans, moans, howls, and hisses.