It looks like pigs might actually fly! I couldn’t resist taking a photograph of this customers thatched flying pig on her roof in Ugley. No one is really sure of the story behind this thatched animal, but its safe to say that it is rather amusing and very unusual! I don’t think anyone will have seen one of these before.

Having said this the flying pig has its origins in the distant past in the folklore of ancient Greece – The Flying Pig is a creature with origins in Greek mythology, legend and folklore. The original flying pig was a winged boar named Chrysaor, the offspring of the Gorgon Medusa, and the Greek sea god Poseidon, and the brother of the winged horse Pegasus.

There was also The Crommyonian Sow was a wild pig that ravaged the region around the village of Crommyon between Megara and Corinth, and was eventually slain by Theseus in his early adventures. According to the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, it was said by some to be the daughter of Echidna and Typhon, and was named after the old woman who raised it. According to Strabo, the sow was said to be the mother of the Calydonian Boar. Gaius Julius Hyginus says that the pig Theseus killed at Crommyon was a boar.

Plutarch repeats the story, but states that he had also been told that Phaia herself was a murderous female robber, and was nicknamed “Sow” because of her obese children and uncouth manners, and that she was the “sow” killed by Theseus.