The Pig King is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his The Facetious Nights of Straparola. Madame d'Aulnoy wrote a French, also literary, variant, titled Prince Marcassin.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 441, In an Enchanted Skin; an episode of this opens The Enchanted Pig.
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“Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“A king should die on his feet.”
—Louis XVIII (1755–1824)