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Boar's Head and Boxing Day in Christmas Carols
The excerpt surveys English carols and Christmas traditions from the first English carol collection of 1921. It notes variants of The boar's head carol at different colleges, mentions the boar as a pig in earlier times, and explains Feast of Stephen and Boxing Day origins. It also describes shepherds, a shepherdess in carols, finding the bean in Epiphany cakes, and the robin motif on early cards.
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Queens College, Oxford
Oxford
St. John’s
Balilot
Britain
Stephen
Wenceslas
Bohemia
St. Stephen’s
St. Stephen
Christ
Herod
England
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