A new mainstream book entitled "The Quest for the Original Horse Whisperers" claims that the KKK was a Scottish institution that was transplanted to the South by Celtic immigrants.
The author is Russ Lyon, a veterinary surgeon in Scotland, who traced the spread of the Klan structure from the farmlands of Buchan to the American South.
Lyon says that KKK has its roots in ancient Celtic ritual, which included the whispering of magic words into the ears of horses, and that it was later adopted by Masonic (Yes. Pike, Simmons ect) societies in Scotland, who Christianized it to make to appeal to a broader mass, and who then exported it to the South. Lyon tracks six men in particular who immigrated from Scotland during the Civil War, bringing the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan with them.
"It started as just another hellfire club and then it just got out of hand and led directly on to the Ku Klux Klan.", Lyon recently told the Scottish newspaper, the Scotsman.
The theory that the KKK has its roots in Scottish emigre culture, and that the Civil War, in some aspects, was a conflict between the most Celtic Southern population and the mostly Anglo-Saxon Northern population, has been denounced by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center as "racist" and "white supremacist".
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