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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".
The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".
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but found a snake The snake saw me and I saw him and then I sank 'cause I can't swim Down, down I sank into the lake and right behind me was that snake Then he turned back with fangs and all what scared him was the waterfall One hundred feet is pretty tall but a sharp rock it broke my fall Then I crawled out into the swamp and I stood up when I ...
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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 ]
Krákumál or the Lay of Kraka is a skaldic poem, consisting of a monologue in which Ragnar Lodbrok is dying in Ælla's snake pit and looks back at a life full of heroic deeds. It was composed in the 12th century, almost certainly in the Scottish islands. [1]
But when the crow seizes her, the snake kills it with her sting. The story's moral is that good fortune may not be all that it seems. [2] An alternative fable concerning a raven and a scorpion is included as a poem by Archias of Mytilene in the Greek Anthology. [3] The story is much the same but the moral drawn is that the biter shall be bit.