October Horse

[twilightpony]

I read about a practice called "the October Horse". It involves a race between pairs of horses and the horse on the right side of the winning team gets slaughtered. As in speared. And then the town's folk squabble over his or her head. Ugh. What a way to reward somepony that ran a race for you. Hopefully you've stopped doing that.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

Yeah, that's not practiced anymore! Or at least not in my country!

[twilightpony]

Well, that's good to hear.

[algernon97]

There's a book over here named "The Man Who Would be King."

In it, two treasure seekers in a faraway land come across a native tribe that plays football...with human heads.

Of course, this story takes place about 200 years ago or more, so things have changed a lot by now.

[twilightpony]

What is it with the heads? Is it a meat-eater thing? Don't you have enough melons or squash to go around?

[algernon97]

We tend to be violent. Heads don't normally get used for sports, though.