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Raising Cain

Posted by Ray Fleet on May 14, 2009 at 09:56

We in the South refer to the phrase "Raising Cain" derived from a Civil War Era man who started Mardi Gras in the South. Each year after his burial people would party on his grave attempting to raise him from the dead thus the phrase " Raising Cain"

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