âŠâhow the hell did we ever domesticate these things?â
Very carefully, I would imagine.
WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugsâŠ
âŠbut the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)âŠ
âŠthrough Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)âŠ
âŠAncient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 âValeria Victrixâ). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the ârightâ one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was bestâŠ?
âŠthen Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crestsâŠ
âŠright up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)âŠ
âŠand the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.
After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning sideâŠ
And pigs will definitely eat people.
It gets mentioned in the movie âSnatchâ, the book/movie âHannibalâ and the webcomic âLackadaisy Catsâ, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL itâs suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.
More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).
Hereâs some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancientâŠ
âŠand the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancientâŠ