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Taran is a fictional character from Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series of novels. Serving as the series's central protagonist, he is first introduced as the assistant pig-keeper at Caer Dallben charged with the care of Hen Wen, the oracular white pig.
In the short story, "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", by P.G. Wodehouse the sow Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.
In the land of Prydain, Taran, a teenage "assistant pig-keeper" on the farm of Caer Dallben, home of Dallben the Enchanter, dreams of becoming a famous warrior. Dallben learns that the evil Horned King is searching for a mystical relic known as the Black Cauldron, which can create an invincible army of undead warriors known as the Cauldron-Born.
This can often be a problem for some pig keepers as pigs can make short work of green areas and go overboard in their rooting behaviors, even destroying crops and trees. Pigs can also be extremely ...
In Lloyd Alexander's books The Chronicles of Prydain, based on Welsh mythology, the hero is a pig keeper, or swineherd. So he is in the Disney film adaptation The Black Cauldron . The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott 's novel Ivanhoe is a swineherd.
Once the pig bug has taken hold of her master, the Empress becomes a regular feature in the Blandings books, playing some part in most of the subsequent stories: Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (1927, included in Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, 1935) Summer Lightning (1929) Heavy Weather (1933) Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939) Full Moon (1947) Pigs Have ...
Tau with abnormal phosphorylation is referred to as hyperphosphorylated, and it clumps together to form NFTs, which gradually build up inside cells, causing their death.
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