Christmas Feasting and Sacrificial Survivals

Chapter XII

Prominence of Eating in the English Christmas —The Boar's Head, the Goose, and other Christmas Fare —Frumenty, Sowens, Yule Cakes, and the Wassail Bowl —Continental Christmas Dishes, their Possible Origins —French and German Cakes —The Animals' Christmas Feast —Cakes in Eastern Europe —Relics of Animal Sacrifice —Hunting the Wren —Various Games of Sacrificial Origin.