The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #27543   Message #338412
Posted By: Naemanson
10-Nov-00 - 09:34 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
Subject: RE: Boar's Head Carol Info.
The story as I have it, in the Life Book of Christmas, is that the boar's head tradition dates back to Elizabethan England. It supposedly is based on far older Anglo Saxon custom.