the Whacking Day, an episode of the Simpsons, is a satire to harmful traditions, so is The Lottery,a short story from Shirley Jackson. Both are Satires, but the Episode of the Simpsons is and Horatian satire because its funny, difference from The Lottery, that is not funny, in fact its almost scary, but they both get to the same point: Some traditions can be more than harmful, can be destructive for the community, and it can get to kill animals or humans, but all the participants do it with the excuse that is "Part of the Tradition".
For example, In Whacking Day, they kill snakes, but in The Lottery they throw rocks to people just because they got the marked ball. this is obviously a satire to society criticizing that they can excuse themselves to do somehting clearly bad just because their ancestors did it. i think a good example in society would be the Corridas de Toros, or the tauromaquial tradition,