[Scrambler Bob]

I read some French history a while back, where at at wedding, about 14th century, one attendee dressed as a tree, or a bird (can’t recall well), using pitch to fasten the bark or feathers to himself.

Well, he got a little too close to some flame, and combusted.

Can’t recall more detail. Anyone?

[Scrambler Bob]

I found it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_des_Ardents

Brief description -
The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men[1]) or the Bal des Sauvages[2] (Ball of the Wild Men), was a masquerade ball[note 1] held on 28 January 1393 in Paris at which Charles VI of France performed in a dance with five members of the French nobility. Four of the dancers were killed in a fire caused by a torch brought in by Charles’s brother Louis I, Duke of Orléans.

A tragic event with drama and irony.