The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis

“Daft? Of course it’s daft - it’s traditional!” - Terry Pratchett

What a weird tradition, denouncing this murderer guy for hundreds of years.

I did manage to witness the duck hunt, which is a once-a-century "tradition" when I was there. A bit weird to have a ritual that nobody was alive for at the previous iteration. I doubt there's even been two coronations that far apart.

“These things happen in a monarchy”

— Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, season 5, episode 10, A Tragedy of Telepaths (1998)