Greetings historians,

I have a particular affinity for pieces of very obscure history one would not normally learn about in any history class, but I'm not sure where to start studying any of this. I'm not even sure if this type of history has a proper term. Here, in any case, are a few examples of what I'm looking for:

• In the early days of knighthood, knights apparently weren't too keen on killing each other. However, all these people knew was war and as such they'd have semi-mock battles where they'd take each other prisoner for ransom. During one such battle, a knight took a sword/spear through the eye slot of his helmet, and died on the field. All the other knights on both sides were so upset that a knight had died, they stopped the fight and came together to hold him a funeral.

• There was a time in ancient Egypt when an essential part of a pharaoh's coronation was for him to appear publicly and jerk off into the Nile in front of a crowd.

• In ancient Scotland, a king would have his subjects suck his nipples as part of his coronation, as an act of submission to him. This was an essential part of the coronation of without it one could not become king. In these times, to cut off the nipples of a possible future king was to prevent him from ever being crowned.