Aseop's Fable

This fable is from Aesop's fables... 

 

  The Lion and the Mouse

       
     Once there was a lion taking a rest. At this time a naughty little mouse began running up and down upon the lion. For this reason the lion woke up. The lion placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to eat him. 

     The lion caught the mouse and holding him in his large claws. The lion growled in anger- “How dare you wake me up! Don't you know that I am King of the Beasts? Anyone who disturbs my rest deserves to die!"

    The scared mouse, shaking and trembling, begged the lion to let him go. “Please don't eat me Your Majesty! I did not mean to wake you, it was a mistake. I was only playing. Please let me go  and I promise to do something for you in return some of this day.I will be your friend forever. Who knows but one day I could save your life?” 

    The lion looked at the tiny mouse and laughed. “You save my life? What an absurd idea!” he said mockingly.

Aesop's Fable

This fable is from Aesop's fables...

    The Dog and the Shadow

 There was dog lived in a village. It happened when the Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way of home he had to cross a piece of wood lying across a running stream. When he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water underneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and it was never seen more. 

The moral of the story:

Beware you can lose the thing what you get by grasping at the greediness.

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What is fable

Fable is among the oldest forms of folk literature. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country all over the world. The word "fable" comes from the Latin "fabula" ("little story"). In general, a fable consists of a story and a short moral conclusion at the end. The main characters in most fables are animals. The purpose of these stories is to mock negative human behavior.

Sometimes these fables are passed down from generation to generation and from place to place. Sometimes these fables are constructed by a literary tale-teller and its purpose is to impart a lesson or a value. The last sentence of that usually tells what lesson you can conclude from the fables.

Many collections of fables exist in the world: such as the Panchatantram from ancient India, Aesop's from ancient Greece, Phaedrus' from ancient Rome, La Fontaine's fables composed in France in the 17th century, and Joel Chandler Harris's African American fables, the Uncle Remus stories.

There are some famous Fable authors:
   Aesop (mid-6th century BCE), author of Aesop’s Fables.
   Vishnu Sarma (ca. 200 BCE), author of the anthropomorphic political treatise and fable collection, the Panchatantra.
   Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE), Roman fabulist, by birth he is a Macedonian
   Jean de La Fontaine (French, 1621 – 1695).
   Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German, 1729–1781).
   Ivan Krylov (Russian, 1769 – 1844)