The Lady, or the Tiger? an old hag. Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp released a recording of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy" with Willcox reading the stories to electric guitar accompaniment by Fripp. "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is one of three short stories that were adapted into the musical comedy "The Apple Tree". The story was the inspiration for Raymond Smullyan's puzzle book by the same title, "The Lady, or the Tiger?". The first set of logic puzzles in the book had a similar scenario to the short story in which a king gives each prisoner a choice between
Emblem of His Majesty the King of Ashanti a thousand, a thousand will come) in reference to the Porcupine's quills as symbols of Ashanti warriors, is still quoted. Emblem of His Majesty the King of Ashanti The Emblem of His Majesty the Emperor of Ashanti (or National Emblem of Ashanti) is the national emblem of the Ashanti nation, adopted by Ashanti's emperor Asantehene Osei Tutu I in 1701, and is based on the Porcupine, which has been the Ashanti national animal since 1701 the early-eighteenth century AD. The Porcupine in the Asante national emblem was used by the emperor Asantehene of Asante in taking the oath of office