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  2. The Snake and the Farmer - Wikipedia

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    The Snake and the Farmer is a fable attributed to Aesop, of which there are ancient variants and several more from both Europe and India dating from Mediaeval times. The story is classed as Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 285D, and its theme is that a broken friendship cannot be mended. [ 1 ]

  3. The Farmer and the Viper - Wikipedia

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    The story is recorded in both Greek and Latin sources. In the former, the farmer dies reproaching himself "for pitying a scoundrel", while in the version by Phaedrus the snake says that he bit his benefactor "to teach the lesson not to expect a reward from the wicked." The latter sentiment is made the moral in Medieval versions of the fable.

  4. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    The Snake and the Crab; The Snake and the Farmer; The Snake in the Thorn Bush; The Statue of Hermes; The Swan and the Goose; The Tortoise and the Birds; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse; The Travellers and the Plane Tree; The Trees and the Bramble; The Trumpeter Taken Captive; The Two Pots; The Walnut Tree; War ...

  5. The Snake (song) - Wikipedia

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    "The Snake" is a song written and first recorded by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963; it became a hit single for American singer Al Wilson in 1968. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The song tells a story similar to Aesop 's fable The Farmer and the Viper and the African American folktale "Mr. Snake and the Farmer".

  6. The King of the Snakes - Wikipedia

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    Back home, the girls fight over the jasmine flowers, which begin to emit a song. The man explains Mr. Snake, a farmer like him, wishes to marry one of them; the elder two, Rice-Sieve Face and Crab-Dipper Face refuse to marry a lowly farmer, while Lotus-Seed Face agrees to his marriage proposal, and goes to the rear mountain to live with Mr. Snake.

  7. Category:Fictional snakes - Wikipedia

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    Sid's Snake; Skales (Ninjago) Skalidor; Slithraa; Snake 'n' Bacon; The Snake and the Farmer; The Snake and the Crab; The Snake in the Thorn Bush; The Snake Prince; Snake Woman (comics) The Snake-Prince Sleepy-Head; Snow snake (folklore) Spitz (Ninjago)

  8. The Fowler and the Snake - Wikipedia

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    The story is told of a fowler out hunting and concludes, 'Thus the man dies, who looks to the stars with drawn-back bow'. [3] The preceding emblem had illustrated the fable of the Astrologer who Fell into a Well and this continues the lesson there of the need to keep one's attention focussed on the things of this world.

  9. The Snake in the Thorn Bush - Wikipedia

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    The Snake in the Thorn Bush is a rare fable of Greek origin with a West Asian analogue. It is numbered 96 among Aesop's Fables in the Perry Index . [ 1 ] In Greek sources, a snake entwined in a thorn hedge is swept away by a flood and mocked by a fox with the words 'A wicked ship, and worthy of its sailor!'