英语词汇tantony pig的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Tantony pig. The smallest pig in every litter, one that is tradi- tionally believed to follow its master anywhere, is called a Tant- ony pig after St. Anthony, long the patron saint of swineherds. St. Anthony probably had nothing to do with pigs, other than citing an “unclean demon” as one of the temptations he resisted, but he is often represented in art with a pig by his side. In the Middle Ages, when the pig began to lose its reputation as an unclean demon, it was popularly supposed that the animal was dedicated to the saint. St. Anthony, born about the year 250 in middle Egypt, defeated many “assaults by the devil,” including temptations such as “gross and obscene imagings” of beautiful, naked women that Lucifer sent to “harass him night and day.”

词汇	tantony pig
词源	Tantony pig. The smallest pig in every litter, one that is tradi- tionally believed to follow its master anywhere, is called a Tant- ony pig after St. Anthony, long the patron saint of swineherds. St. Anthony probably had nothing to do with pigs, other than citing an “unclean demon” as one of the temptations he resisted, but he is often represented in art with a pig by his side. In the Middle Ages, when the pig began to lose its reputation as an unclean demon, it was popularly supposed that the animal was dedicated to the saint. St. Anthony, born about the year 250 in middle Egypt, defeated many “assaults by the devil,” including temptations such as “gross and obscene imagings” of beautiful, naked women that Lucifer sent to “harass him night and day.”
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