In 1830, a group of revelers, led by Michael Krafft, who was likely influenced by his Pennsylvania Swedish traditions of celebrating the New Year, stayed awake all New Year's Eve, started a dawn parade on January 1, 1831, making noise with cowbells, hoes, and rakes. The group became the first parading mystic society, calling themselves the "Cowbellion de Rakin Society", in a parody of French. They had annual parades each New Year's Eve. Nearly 125 years after Mobile's first parade of 1711, members of the "Cowbellion de Rakin Society", took their parade tradition to New Orleans in 1835, eventually forming the Mistick Krewe of Comus.