This story is told and illustrated in a number of
forms in a number of manuscripts and on certain tiles. In some
versions the pigs eventually regain their human shape. In others, as, for example, in a thirteenth-century
English poem,
the children remain permanently in the form of swine; and in this version, as well as sometimes in others, the
children
are described as Jewish.
— Frederick Cameron Sillar and Ruth Mary Meyler, The Symbolic Pig: An Anthology of Pigs in Literature and Art (Oliver and Boyd Ltd., 1961)
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