>["The Red Shoes"] is [a fairy tale] about a girl [named Karen] forced to dance continually in her red shoes. >[...] Karen finds an executioner and asks him to chop off her feet. He does so but the shoes continue to dance, even with Karen's amputated feet inside them. The executioner gives her a pair of wooden feet and crutches, and teaches her the criminals' psalm (presumably, Psalm 50/51 Miserere). Thinking that she has suffered enough for the red shoes, Karen decides to go to church so people can see her. Yet her amputated feet, still in the red shoes, dance before her, barring the way. The following Sunday she tries again, thinking she is at least as good as the others in church, but again the dancing red shoes bar the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(fairy_tale)
And the "Royal Order of Jesters" is a sub-cult of the Shriners (who wear red Fez hats w/ moon star symbolism and Islamic names).
