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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".
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.
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 ...
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 ]
An illustration of the fable in Gabriele Faerno's collection of Aesop's Fables, 1590 The fable of the Eel and the Snake was originated by Laurentius Abstemius in his Hecatomythium (1490). [ 1 ] Versions of it appeared in several European languages afterwards and in collections associated with Aesop's Fables .
Snow-white and Rosy-red said the truth and the princes showed them the babies still alive in the snake pit. The king asked his mother what a fitting punishment would be for such an evil crime, and she prescribed being torn apart by twelve horses , so she fell victim to her punishment.
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Samuel Howitt's print of the fable, published in 1810. The hedgehog and the snake, alternatively titled The snakes and the porcupine, was a fable originated by Laurentius Abstemius in 1490. From the following century it was accepted as one of Aesop's Fables in several European collections.