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  2. The Heart of a Monkey - Wikipedia

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    In this version it is the crocodile's wife who, after enjoying the figs given by the monkey to her husband, desires to eat the monkey's heart. [4] Whereas the Swahili version has only one embedded tale, in the Panchatantra version the monkey and crocodile tell each other numerous tales in the course of their story, the second of which ...

  3. Muggle-Wump - Wikipedia

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    Muggle-Wump" the monkey is a fictional character in some of Roald Dahl's books for children, and "the Muggle-Wumps" are his family. A Muggle-Wump appears in The Enormous Crocodile and there is a Muggle-Wump with a family in The Twits. [1] A Muggle-Wump lookalike (shown in Quentin Blake's illustrations) appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and ...

  4. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - Wikipedia

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    More often, they are said to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. However, one version of the cover of the book features a person spitting in pink instead of orange. The Monkey, in both appearance and diet, bears a strong resemblance to Muggle-Wump, a monkey from two of Dahl's earlier books: The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits.

  5. List of fictional crocodilians - Wikipedia

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    A large female Nile crocodile that stalks and kills teenagers for raiding her nest. Gustave Primeval: 2005 Michael Katleman: Inspired by a true story, Gustave is an enormous male Nile Crocodile in Africa responsible for the deaths of 300 people. Lizzie Rampage: 2018 Brad Peyton: A giant American crocodile from the Everglades mutated by CRISPR.

  6. Crocodile (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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    Crocodile book cover, 1927 "Crocodile" (Russian: Крокодил) is a 1916-1917 fairy tale poem for children by Korney Chukovsky about a crocodile strolling along the streets of Petrograd (the contemporary name of St. Petersburg, Russia). It quickly became very popular, due to its utter nonsense, previously unseen in print, and skillful ...

  7. Panchatantra - Wikipedia

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    It goes by many names in many cultures. There is a version of Panchatantra in nearly every major language of India, and in addition there are 200 versions of the text in more than 50 languages around the world. [9] One version reached Europe in the 11th century. [2] To quote Edgerton (1924): [10]

  8. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin

  9. The Crocodile (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Crocodile" (Russian: Крокодил, Krokodil) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch. It is a work of satire , parodying political, social and economic themes prevailing in Russia at the time.