Small statuettes of three monkeys, one covering his eyes, another his ears, and the last covering his mouth, have been popular in Britain since the 1900s; they are known to have been carried as lucky charms by soldiers in the First World War. They are identified with a proverbial saying, ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’, first recorded in 1926.  A few figurines show the first two monkeys peeping and listening, while the third has a finger on his lips; these may reflect the proverb ‘Hear all, see all, say not’, known since the late Middle Ages.

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