Literary and Popular Culture References
- Washington Irving propounded the surprise of his famous protagonist, Rip Van Winkle, by noting among the unexpected details of the re-awakened Rip's newly post-revolutionary village a "tall naked pole, with something on it that looked like a red night cap..."
- The revolutionist protagonists of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress often wear a liberty cap. It is referred to exclusively as such. It becomes a fashion article at one point, and is once placed on a telephone terminal open to the A.I. character "Mike."
- The popular comic/cartoon characters The Smurfs are famous for their white Phrygian caps. Their leader, Papa Smurf, wears a red one, with other Smurf characters that wear "differently" styled hats, usually still having the phrygian cap as the crown of their unique headgear.
- Cornish piskies wear Phrygian caps symbolising proto-Celtic origins and magical powers in Mystic Rose – Celtic Fire by Toney Brooks.
- Christine, the mistreated heroine of Howard Pyle's Cinderella-inspired fairy tale "The Apple of Contentment," wears a Phrygian cap in Pyle's illustrations.
- The song Then She Appeared by rock group XTC contains the line "Dressed in tricolour and Phrygian cap".
- French marine explorer and aqua-lung inventor Jacques Cousteau wore a red Phrygian cap.
- Much in reference to Jacques Cousteau, the main character and his team in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou all don red Phrygian caps.
- Jaq and Gus, the two main mice characters in the Disney animated feature Cinderella, wear small Phyrgian caps; Jaq wears a red one while Gus wears an aquamarine color.
- In the popular video game series The Legend of Zelda, the protagonist, Link, wears a green Phrygrian cap.
- Another video game series, Assassin's Creed, mentions the Phrygian cap along with the Masonic Eye in the game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
- The term Phrygian cap has been adopted to describe a particular type of common anatomical variant of the gallbladder as seen on ultrasound imaging.
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