Amidst dreamlike landscapes of Ireland, which is fit to leprecon darting about, sometimes disgusting things were happening...
It is absolutely obvious, that medieval Irish rites of 'inauguration' of the new king occasionally involved such celebrations like 'wedding-feast of kingship'. It flows out of symbolical imagines of kings who were wedding on their dominion. Also there were similar rites known as by an Irish term feis. They could include sexual acts as well as presence of horses...
The most disgusting rite had been described by Giraldus Cambrensis in his Topographia Hibernica in 1188, in which confirmed that in order to get both crown and power, the upcoming king, the successor of the throne of the Cenél Conaill, was supposed to merge in sexual embrace with a white mare. Then the animal was slaughtered to boil a broth. This dish was served in a huge cauldron in which one the new king must bathed and after this strange and unpleasant sight he and all of his guests drank the concoction king bathed in....