'If you're finding your Christmas parties lacking a certain something, why not elect a Lord of Misrule to lead you in wild and chaotic revels… a practice that originated with the Roman festivals of Saturnalia about 2,000 years ago, where mock kings were elected by friends to issue ridiculous commands.'
'By the early modern period, the puritan pamphleteer Philip Stubbs was complaining that the Lords of Misrule brought devilry, whoredom, drunkenness, pride… we have many accounts of riots, smashed windows, and even a manslaughter charge brought against a Lord of Misrule in England after his Christmas games went awry.'
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