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  2. The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Wikipedia

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    Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. [1] From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [2] and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are ...

  3. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    The Boy Who Cried Wolf; The Bulls and the Lion; The Cat and the Mice; 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 ...

  4. Aesop - Wikipedia

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    Aesop (/ ˈ iː s ɒ p / EE-sop or / ˈ eɪ s ɒ p / AY-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.

  5. Category:Metaphors referring to wolves - Wikipedia

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    The Boy Who Cried Wolf; D. The Dog and the Wolf; H. Homo homini lupus; L. Lone wolf attack; P. The Priest and the Wolf; T. Throw to the wolves; W. The Wolf and the Crane;

  6. Westward Whoa - Wikipedia

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    The film is a Western adaptation of the ancient fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." The film is in the public domain after Warner Bros. failed to renew the copyright in 1964. [ 3 ]

  7. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

  8. List of Fables characters - Wikipedia

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    The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Referred to in the March of the Wooden Soldiers story arc. When Snow White does not believe Jack Horner's story about The Wooden Soldiers, Snow asks if he did ever hear about the Boy Who Cried Wolf; Jack replies, "Sure, Snow. He lives up on the seventh floor" (of the Woodland building).

  9. Cry Wolf - Wikipedia

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    Cry Wolf, their first album "Cry Wolf" (A-ha song), a 1986 song "Cry Wolf" (Laura Branigan song), a 1987 song later covered by Stevie Nicks; Cry Wolf (Cavo song), an album by Cavo "Cry Wolf", a song by Venom from the 1983 album At War with Satan "Cry Wolf", a song by Lisa Germano from the 1994 album Geek the Girl