Order of the Bull's Blood

For the Hungarian red wine called "Bull’s Blood," see Egri Bikavér.

The Poor Knights of the Order of the Bull's Blood (also known as "Lodge 443") is a secret society at Rutgers,^{[citation needed]} the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This society was allegedly established at Rutgers College (then a small liberal arts college) in 1834 by Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, William A. Newell, John Parker and Cortlandt Parker and Joseph P. Bradley who were members of the Rutgers College Class of 1836.^{[citation needed]}

Each April, members of the graduating senior class selected or "tap" ten or twelve students (accounts differ) from the junior class (those anticipating to graduate after another year at university) to be members.^{[citation needed]} These neophytes undergo a set of initiation rites. Various accounts have compared the order to the Freemasons, Gnostic Christianity and the Mithraic Cults.

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• Rutgers University