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A swineherd /ˈswaɪnhɜːrd/ is a person who raises and herds pigs. The term has fallen out of popular use in favour of pig farmer.

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  • Hans Christian Andersen wrote a Fairy tale called, "The Swineherd".
  • In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (or Eumaios) was Odysseus' swineherd.
  • In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the younger son wastes his inheritance and eventually has to become a swineherd.
  • In Lloyd Alexander's books based on Welsh mythology, The Chronicles of Prydain, the hero is a pig keeper, or swineherd.
  • The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott's book "Ivanhoe" is a swineherd.
  • The main character in the Disney movie The Black Cauldron 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 Wall," has reoccurring nightmares of a bearded daemon swineherd.
  • mentioned as a class of labourer in the Statute of Labourers 1351

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