At the Charlton Horn Fair you can dress as a king, as a Miller’s Wife or as a Miller (in which case don some horns you poor cuckhold) and celebrate King John tupping the Miller’s Wife by whipping women on the bottom with branches of furze and finishing the whole affair with a jolly orgy*!
* Orgies are optional and liable to have the fair closed down (this happened in 1872).
(Source: Maypoles Martyrs and Mayhem – Quentin Cooper and Paul Sullivan)
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