Enric the elephant lives up behind Montesquiu castle in Osona. Clearly unrelated to Pere Quart’s Elefant, with its “lawyer’s cheeks”, neither does he seem to have family in India; it would be difficult to fit a dirty old man inside him, and, for all the availability of wild boar in nearby forests, I don’t think he’s part of Ramon Llull’s orifany/senglar double-act (“The king named as his councillors the Elephant and the Boar … and threw out the Rabbit and the Peacock”). Google’s still not working, so I give up, but here’s a photo for you to ponder:
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