Swineherd
A swineherd /ˈswaɪnhɜːrd/ is a person who raises and herds pigs as livestock.
Swineherds in literature
- In the New Testament are mentioned shepherd of pigs, mentioned in the Pig (Gadarene) the story shows Jesus exorcising a demon or demons from a man and a flock of pigs,[1] as well as in the parable of the Prodigal Son in a son who wastes his father's fortune and is forced to work as a Swineherd.[2]
- Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale called The Swineherd.
- In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (or Eumaios) was Odysseus' swineherd.
- In Lloyd Alexander's books The Chronicles of Prydain, based on Welsh mythology, the hero is a pig keeper, or swineherd. So he is in the Disney film adaptation The Black Cauldron.
- The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe is a swineherd.
- Among Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's most famous work is the poem "Swineherd".
- The protagonist in H. P. Lovecraft's story “The Rats in the Walls“ has reoccurring nightmares of a bearded daemon swineherd.
- Mentioned as a class of labourer in the Statute of Labourers 1351.
- In the Senchas Fagbála Caisil "The Story of the Finding of Cashel", one of the earliest medieval Irish texts, the legend of the kingship of Cashel is told through several visions experienced by two swineherds, Duirdriu and Cuirirán.
Swineherds in paintings
- The Swineherd, a 1888 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin
Swineherds in history
- Denewulf, Bishop of Winchester from 878 or 879 until his death in 908, began his life as a swineherd.
- Ivaylo of Bulgaria, a swineherd who spearheaded a peasant uprising and became tsar of Bulgaria (1277–1278).
- Rafael Carrera, President of Guatemala 1844-48 and 1851-65
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swineherds.
- Pig farming
- Porcarius, Latin for swineherd, sometimes used as a name
References
- Swineherd, Askoxford.com
- Swineherd, Bartleby.com
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- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Order Artiodactyla
- Suborder Suina
- Family Suidae
- Subfamily Suinae
- Genus Sus
- Species Sus domesticus
- Farming
- Intensive farming
- Sty
- Pannage
- Toilet
- Hog oiler
- Gestation crate
- Cross-fostering
- Swineherd
- Feedback
- As food
- Bacon
- Bondiola
- Capocollo
- Ham
- Lard
- Pork
- Chitterlings
- Scalder
- Slaughter
- Suckling
- Blood
- Religious restrictions
- Scottish pork taboo
- Freddy the Pig
- Flitch of bacon custom
- Floyd of Rosedale
- Miss Piggy
- Porky Pig
- Piglet
- "The Three Little Pigs"
- Animal Farm
- Old Major
- Napoleon
- Snowball
- Squealer
- Babe
- Babe: Pig in the City
- Bad Piggies
- Blandings Castle
- My Brother the Pig
- Charlotte's Web
- The Sheep-Pig
- Peppa Pig
- Super Pig
- Butareba: The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig
- Fair, then Partly Piggy
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
- Kazoops!
- Olivia (character)
- TV series
- Pink Floyd pigs
- Pinky and Perky
- Preston Pig
- Rasher
- Porco Rosso
- Spider-Ham
- Spider pig
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
- The Tale of Pigling Bland
- "This Little Piggy"
- Toot & Puddle
- Huxley Pig
- Wibbly Pig
- Zhu Bajie
- Hamilton Hocks
- Pig City
- List of individual pigs
- List of fictional pigs
- Piganino
- Pigasus (politics)
- Category: Pigs
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