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The story is much the same but the moral drawn is that the biter shall be bit. Another epigram by Antipater of Thessalonica , dating from the first century BCE, has an eagle carry off an octopus sunning itself on a rock, only to be entangled in its tentacles and fall into the sea, 'losing both its prey and its life'.
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham, which retells the story from the point of view of the youngest brother who was left with the swan's wing. Stories to Remember: The Wild Swans, an animated short film narrated by Sigourney Weaver.
(6 additional stories) 141-146 The false friend I.3 The merchant's bride I.8 The cat who became superfluous II.4 The canny procuress II.5 War (frame) III.1 The goose and the crow III.5 The crow and the quail III.6 The faithful servant III.9 The hermit and the mouse IV.6 The two ogres IV.9
The moral of the story is not to reach above one's station. Some mediaeval versions have different details. In Odo of Cheriton's telling the crow is ashamed of its ugliness and is advised by the eagle to borrow feathers from the other birds, but when it starts to insult them the eagle suggests that the birds reclaim their feathers. [4]
Bill Skarsgård, Brandon Lee Jon Kopaloff;Barry King/WireImage/Getty Images(2) Bill Skarsgård is ready to take flight in his new role as The Crow. The actor will take on the role of the ...
The swan and the cook (Le cygne et le cuisinier, III.12) The Tortoise and the Birds (La tortue et les deux canards, X.3) The Tortoise and the Hare (Le lièvre et la tortue, VI.10) The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (Le rat de ville et le rat des champs, I.9) The treasure and the two men (Le trésor et les deux hommes, IX.15)
The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder is the earliest to attest that the story reflects the behaviour of real-life corvids. [13] In August 2009, a study published in Current Biology revealed that rooks, a relative of crows, do just the same as the crow in the fable when presented with a similar situation. [14]