Swineherd

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.

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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
"O'Mahonys" a local Irish slang for Swineherds, named after the famous pig farmers of Castlelyons, known for their truffle sniffing capabilities (1801–1825)

Swineherds in literature