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There are two Greek sources for this fable, giving conflicting interpretations. One describes how a fowler is so intent on preparing his bird-snares that he treads on a snake and dies from its bite. This story, we are assured, 'shows that when people plot against their neighbours, they fall victim to the same sort of plot themselves'.
The Fox and the Weasel is a title used to cover a complex of fables in which a number of other animals figure in a story with the same basic situation involving the unfortunate effects of greed. Of Greek origin, it is counted as one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 24 in the Perry Index .
An original fable by Laurentius Abstemius demonstrates the kinship between the story of "The Eagle and the Fox" and another by Aesop about The Eagle and the Beetle.In the Abstemius story, an eagle seizes some young rabbits to feed its young and tears them to pieces despite their mother's plea for mercy, thinking that an earth-bound creature could do it no harm.
The Crab and the Fox; The Cock and the Jewel; The Cock, the Dog and the Fox; The Crow and the Pitcher; The Crow and the Sheep; The Crow and the Snake; The Deer without a Heart; The Dog and Its Reflection; The Dog and the Sheep; The Dog and the Wolf; The Dogs and the Lion's Skin; The Dove and the Ant; The Eagle and the Beetle; The Eagle and the Fox
Fables (Lobel book) Fantastic Mr Fox; Flossie & the Fox; Fox in Socks; The Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song; G. Gon, the Little Fox; The Gruffalo; L ...
The fable of the Raven and the Scorpion engraved by Marcus Gheeraerts. The latter fable of the Raven and the Scorpion recommended itself as a moral device to the compilers of Emblem books. The earliest of these was Andrea Alciato, whose influential Emblemata was published in many formats and in several countries from 1531 onwards. [7]
Mishlè Shu'alim (Hebrew: משלי שועלים, "Fox fables") is a collection of mashal as fable, including fables about foxes, written, translated, and compiled by the English Jewish writer Berechiah ha-Nakdan in the 12th–13th century. [1]
A painting of the fable in a Greek manuscript, c.1470. The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index.Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim.