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  2. The Fisherman and his Flute - Wikipedia

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    The Fisherman and his Flute appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 11 in the Perry Index. [1] Wide variations on the theme have existed over the centuries. The fable and its analogues

  3. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    The Fisherman and the Little Fish; The Fly and the Ant; The Fly in the Soup; The Fowler and the Snake; The Fox and the Crow; The Fox and the Grapes; The Fox and the Lion; The Fox and the Mask; The Fox and the Sick Lion; The Fox and the Stork; The Fox and the Weasel; The Fox and the Woodman; The Fox, the Flies and the Hedgehog; The Frightened ...

  4. The Frogs Who Desired a King - Wikipedia

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    In the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables, Arthur Rackham chose to picture the carefree frogs at play on their King Log, a much rarer subject among illustrators. [13] But the French artist Benjamin Rabier, having already illustrated a collection of La Fontaine's fables, subverted the whole subject in a later picture, Le Toboggan ('The sleigh-run ...

  5. Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers ...

  6. Aesop's Fables (film series) - Wikipedia

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    Aesop's Fables (previously titled Aesop's Film Fables and Aesop's Sound Fables) is a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. [1] Produced from 1921 to 1934, the series includes The Window Washers (1925), Scrambled Eggs (1926), Small Town Sheriff (1927), Dinner Time (1928), and Gypped in Egypt (1930).

  7. The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia

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    The Scorpion and the Frog is sometimes attributed to Aesop, although it does not appear in any collection of Aesop's fables published before the 20th century. [ 9 ] [ 12 ] However, there are a number of ancient fables traditionally attributed to Aesop which teach a similar moral, the closest parallels being The Farmer and the Viper and The Frog ...

  8. The Frog and the Fox - Wikipedia

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    A frog leaves his native swamp and proclaims himself a wonder-working doctor. He is then asked by a sceptical fox how it is that he cannot cure his own lameness and sickly complexion. The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, " Physician, heal thyself ", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures).

  9. The Fable of Fox and Heron - Wikipedia

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    The Fable of Fox and Heron is an oil painting by Frans Snyders depicting the story from Aesop's Fable.It was created in Antwerp sometime between 1630 and 1640, [1] the painting is a composite of two stories, "The Fable of the Fox and Heron (or stork)" and "The Frogs who asked for a King". [2]