On one capitol in Clune a demon with pig's face is playing a bow instrument. The jesters, witches, and sorcerers usually rode pigs. The demons were often shown as loudly grunting pigs.

In Chinese caricature arts a pig is a satire on Christian missionaries. The image of a pig was popular in the XVIIth century in German caricature. Later - in England. A series of political cartoons was introduced by

D. Gillray at the end of the XVIIth century after E. Berk called the English people a "pig herd". A weekly magazine in England had the title "Pig Feed". During the years of the French Revolution a caricature showing a pig with Marie- Antoinette's head was very popular.

Peter the Great found amusement in the trains with pigs, bears, and goats in the head. Church considered a goat and a pig to be dirty, dissolute, and greedy animals.

A pig is not only a nasty animal, it is funny itself - fat, clumsy, with an unusual nose, and drill tail. Its appearance and comic grunting make us smile. Pigs' ears, a snout, a tail, and hooves are often pictured in the cartoons. In the picture by I. Terebenev Napoleon in 1812 rides on sledges harnessed by a pig.

Pigs might fly if they had wings.

A pig may be not only amusing but also disgusting when it is in the dirt and garbage. It is known that a pig in some special moments can eat its own porklings. It is often ridiculed by the satirists. Hitler-bear, Kaiser-hog are loathsome.

What do you expect from a pig but a grunt.

Pig's features are often given to drunkards and hooligans, to ignorant and untidy people. To call somebody a pig means disgrace.

"Dismiss this pig", - that were the words of the Russian emperor Alexander the III when he found out that the Foreign Secretary I. Durnovo had been caught stealing. These words were often used in caricatures about that Secretary during the years of the First Russian Revolution (1905-1907).

Don't cast pearls before swine.