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==In popular culture== ===Artwork=== [[File:Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[American Gothic]]'', by [[Grant Wood]], 1930]] Paintings by various artists depict a wide variety of pitchforks in use and at rest.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ritch |first=Alan |url=http://www.hayinart.com/002613.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020154940/http://www.hayinart.com/002613.html |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |title=Resting in the hay (1592-1900) |publisher=Hay In Art |date=February 6, 2006|access-date=February 13, 2014}}</ref> A notable American work is ''[[American Gothic]]'' (1930) by [[Grant Wood]], which features a three-pronged tool. ===Politics=== [[File:Buonaparte, 48 Hours after Landing. (BM 1868,0808.7157).jpg|right|thumb|Propaganda work by [[James Gillray]] (1803) showing British icon [[John Bull]] holding the head of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] on a pitchfork after a conjectured French invasion of Great Britain]] Because of its association with peasantry and farming, the pitchfork has been used as a [[populism|populist]] symbol and appended as a nickname for certain leading populist figures, such as [[Benjamin Tillman|"Pitchfork" Ben Tillman]] and [[Pat Buchanan|"Pitchfork" Pat Buchanan]].{{Cn|date=March 2021}} The Gangster Disciples, a [[street gang]] in the [[Midwestern United States]], use [[Gangster Disciples#Markings and symbols|a three-pointed pitchfork]] as one of their symbols.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gutierrez |first1=Carl D. |title=Asset Protection for the 21st Century |url=https://www.fmi.org/docs/loss/Gangs_and_the_Food_Industry.pdf |website=Food Marketing Institute |publisher=[[Food Marketing Institute]] |access-date=27 August 2019}}</ref> The [[New Order (Venezuela)|New Order]], a Venezuelan [[far-right]] political party, used a three-pointed pitchfork as their symbol.{{Cn|date=March 2021}} ===Religious symbolism=== The pitchfork is often used in lieu of the visually similar weapon, the [[trident]], in popular portrayals and satire of [[Symbols and symbolism in Christian demonology|Christian demonology]]. Many humorous cartoons, both [[animation|animated]] and otherwise, feature a [[caricature]] of a [[devil|demon]] ostensibly wielding a "pitchfork" (often actually a [[trident]]) sitting on one shoulder of a protagonist, opposite an [[angel]] on the other.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}} The [[Greek mythology|Hellenistic deity]] [[Hades (mythology)|Hades]] wields a [[bident]], a two-pronged weapon similar in form to a pitchfork but actually related to the trident in design and purpose.{{Cn|date=March 2021}}
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