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2. The Eel and the Snake - Wikipedia

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   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 .

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4. 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 ...

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6. 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 ]

7. The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known appearance of this fable is in the 1933 Russian novel The German Quarter by Lev Nitoburg. The novel refers to it as an "oriental fairy tale". [2] The fable also appears in the 1944 novel The Hunter of the Pamirs, and this is the earliest known appearance of the fable in English. [3]

8. The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs - Wikipedia

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   The theme of a duck, goose or hen laying a golden egg, but not the traditional plot line, was taken up in films in both the United States and Russia. In Golden Yeggs ( Warner Bros , 1950) it was given cartoon treatment, [ 16 ] while it provided a comedy MacGuffin in The Million Dollar Duck ( Walt Disney Productions , 1971).

9. The Farmer and the Viper - Wikipedia

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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".