 This request is granted; the killer partakes of the victim’s body as an alternative sacrament.In "Garin le Loheren", Begon is similarly assassinated next to the corpse of a boar, and takes communion with three blades of grass.Kay’s conjecture that a pre-Christian tradition accounts for the use of leaves as the viaticum is supported by evidence from Hellenistic magico-religious practice, the continuance of which is documented in Gaul and among Germanic peoples.