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  2. Shita-kiri Suzume - Wikipedia

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    Shita-kiri Suzume (舌切り雀, shita-kiri suzume), translated literally into "Tongue-Cut Sparrow", is a traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.

  3. Fables, Ancient and Modern - Wikipedia

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    Fables, Ancient and Modern contains translations of the First Book of Homer's Iliad, eight selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, three of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (and an imitation from the Prologue on "The Character of a Good Parson"), the later medieval poem The Flower and the Leaf, which he thought was by Chaucer, and three ...

  4. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  5. The Frog and the Ox - Wikipedia

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    The folly of trying to keep up with the Joneses is the conclusion drawn by La Fontaine's Fables from the Phaedrus version of the tale, applying it to the artistocratic times in which La Fontaine lived ("The frog that wished to be as big as the ox", Fables I.3):

  6. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    The fable is found in a large number of mediaeval Latin sources and also figures as a moral ballade among the poems of Eustache Deschamps under the title of La fourmi et le céraseron. [5] From the start it assumes prior knowledge of the fable and presents human examples of provident and improvident behaviour as typified by the insects.

  7. The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) - Wikipedia

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    A 19th century Minton tile illustrating the fable. The Fox and the Crow is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index.There are early Latin and Greek versions and the fable may even have been portrayed on an ancient Greek vase. [1]

  8. The Lion and the Mouse - Wikipedia

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    Though the fable is frequently a subject of children's literature, Jerry Pinkney's The Lion & the Mouse (2009) tells it through pictures alone, without the usual text of such books, and won the 2010 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations. [29] The story is updated and adapted to fit the conditions of the Serengeti National Park, in which it is ...

  9. The Hawk and the Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The same point of view underlies other fables of Aesop dealing with the tyrannical use of power, such as The Wolf and the Lamb, in which sophistry is rejected in the face of hunger. Still another of Aesop's fables, The fisherman and the little fish, draws much the same conclusion as later European variants of "The Hawk and the Nightingale". The ...