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A likely precursor to The Scorpion and the Frog is the Persian fable of The Scorpion and the Turtle, which appears in a number of Persian texts from the late 15th century. These are the Beharistan , written in 1487 by the Persian poet Jami , [ 7 ] and the Anvaar Soheili written c. 1500 by the Persian scholar Husayn Kashifi . [ 8 ]
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 earliest appearance known to me of the scorpion-and-frog fable that is the subject of this article is in the film Mr Arkadin (1955), written and directed by Orson Welles and based on a novel that bears Welles's name but which in later years he denied having written and claimed never to have read. (It includes the fable, and was published in ...
Articles relating to fables, succinct fictional stories, in prose or verse, that feature animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrate or lead to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim.
The mouse is escaping famine and accepts the frog's offer to tow it across the river; the story then continues as Ysoppe dit en son livre et raconte (according to Aesop's account). [4] Marie de France's story is more circumstantial and concludes differently from most others. The mouse lives contentedly in a mill and offers hospitality to a ...
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