Note 34 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.
Reading edition
The comparative mythologists account for the spring boar festival by connecting it with the ceremonial eating of the boar’s head at Christmas in Europe, as a symbol of the gloomy monster of winter, killed at the winter solstice, after which the days get longer and brighter.34 Mr. Frazer explains it by the killing of the Corn Spirit in the form of the boar.35