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The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]
They include the Hebrew 'the axe goes to the wood from whence it borrowed its helve,' [2] of which there are Kannada [3] and Urdu [4] equivalents, and the Turkish 'When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said "The handle is one of us".' [5] Wenceslas Hollar's engraving of the woodcutter, included in John Ogilby's collection of Aesop's ...
Aesop's Fables (previously titled Aesop's Film Fables and Aesop's Sound Fables) is a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. [1] Produced from 1921 to 1934, the series includes The Window Washers (1925), Scrambled Eggs (1926), Small Town Sheriff (1927), Dinner Time (1928), and Gypped in Egypt (1930).
The King Wolf, pyrography on olive wood by Roberto Frangioni Piroritrattista Framàr. Pyrography or pyrogravure is the free handed art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning. [1]
Toggle Aesop's Fables subsection. 1.1 Titles A–F. 1.2 Titles G–O. 1.3 Titles R–Z. 2 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ...
Rosa Bonheur's 1853 painting of the charcoal burner returning home from work. A charcoal burner proposed to his friend the fuller that they share quarters in the same house, but the fuller replied, "That would be impossible, for whatever I whitened, you would immediately blacken again". [2]
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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".