1. For a parallel, consider cross-dressing, inebriation, and recreational firing of guns during holidays such as New Year's Day, May Day, Shrove Tuesday (Vastenavond, the Tuesday preceding Lent), andkermis, a Dutch annual fair or carnival, as celebrated in New Netherland; seeDennis Sullivan,The Punishment of Crime in Colonial New York: The Dutch Experience in Albany during the Seventeenth Century(New York,1997),53,55.