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In Christian symbolism, the boar's head came to represent the triumph of the Christ Child over sin. The tradition of sacrificing a boar and presenting its head at a Yuletide feast is described in the oldest Christmas carol in English, 'The Boar's Head Carol' (first printed in 1521), which is sung at the feast as the boar's head is carried on a platter. The current festival originated et Queen's College, Oxford, where it is still observed every Christmas. The college has its own story, recounted in 1868 by William Henry Husk, who recorded how the tradition arose in
"commemoration of an act of valour performed by a student of the college, who, while walking in the neighbouring forest of Shotover and reading Aristotle, was suddenly attacked by a wild boar. The furious beast came open-mouthed upon the youth, who, however, very courageously, and with a happy presence of mind, thrust the volume he was reading down the boar's throat, crying, Graecum est [with compliments of the Greeks], and fairly chocked the savage with the sage."
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"commemoration of an act of valour performed by a student of the college, who, while walking in the neighbouring forest of Shotover and reading Aristotle, was suddenly attacked by a wild boar. The furious beast came open-mouthed upon the youth, who, however, very courageously, and with a happy presence of mind, thrust the volume he was reading down the boar's throat, crying, Graecum est [with compliments of the Greeks], and fairly chocked the savage with the sage."
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