In 'The Crab and His Mother', a crab tells her son to walk forward instead of sideways, which he can't do. The moral of the fable is to not tell others to do what you can't.
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A lion complains that he fears a rooster, but meets an elephant that fears a gnat. The moral of this fable is that there is always someone worse off than you.
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In this fable, trees give a woodcutter a branch for his axe, which he uses to cut them all down. The moral is to not aid in your own destruction.
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A frog claimed himself a physician that could cure all ills, but a fox, looking him over, told him to cure himself first. We get the proverb 'Physician, heal thyself' from this fable.
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Aesop was a slave & storyteller from Greece who told a collection of fables with central proverbs used to teach ethics.
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'The Old Woman Who Lived' in a Shoe is one of those nursery rhymes that becomes stranger with age. Why a shoe? How large was it? Where did it come from? Children's literature simply hands us impossible real estate and expects us to move on. #FairyTaleTuesday

He lassos tornados. He brought a storm from California to solve a drought in Texas, only to create the Gulf of Mexico. He dug the Rio Grande to give his horse water. He is Pecos Bill, a giant of Southwestern storytelling and of proportion, too. #FairytaleTuesday

Aesop's Fables comments on the intelligence of crows in "The Crow and the Pitcher," which is not so much a fable on perseverance and cleverness, as it is an observable fact that crows are problem-solvers. #FairytaleTuesday

The Scorpion begged the Frog to ferry it across the pond, promising not to sting him, so he agrees; halfway across, the Scorpion stung him. "Why? Now we will both drown," he asks. "A Scorpion cannot change its nature, dear Frog." So goes the famed fable. #FairyTaleTuesday

PINOCCHIO is frankly terrifying; he's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish, plunged alive into a boiling pot and nearly carried off by rabbit undertakers, before becoming a real boy. Illustrations by Folkyard 1914 edition #FairyTaleTuesday

In Aesop's 'The Tortoise and the Hare', the hare is so confident he naps during the race. The tortoise simply keeps moving and wins. More than 2,000 years later, we're still telling children that consistency can beat swagger. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Humpty Dumpty was never actually called an egg in the nursery rhyme. He sits on a wall, falls and can't be put together again. The familiar egg appeared in later illustrations, famously including John Tenniel's 'Through the Looking-Glass'. #FairyTaleTuesday

Tuesday

#BluePlaqueTuesday
#Coosday
#EpigraphyTuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday
#LibraryTuesday
#RaptorTuesday
#RedTuesday
#TerracottaTuesday
#TerrierTuesday
#TextileTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TidesOutTuesday
#TilesOnTuesday
#TimepieceTuesday
#TombstoneTuesday
#TombTuesday
#TongueOutTuesday

"The Chicken Song" is a nursery rhyme with variations in several countries, like Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. It describes a group of chicks happily walking with their mother hen, drinking fresh water, and raising their heads to the sky to thank God. #FairyTaleTuesday

"Everybody Has a Car and My Grandpa Has a Donkey" is a classic Lebanese children's song/nursery rhyme that has been covered by many Arab musicians. It describes a comedic scene of the Grandpa riding his donkey in traffic and getting honked at by drivers. #FairyTaleTuesday

"The Nightingale and Freedom" is an Iraqi nursery rhyme told from the point of view of a child who keeps a nightingale in a golden cage. Though the nightingale is treated well, one day it escapes, telling the child, "My freedom is not bought with gold." #FairyTaleTuesday

🌿🐲🌿The Green Dragon - by Arthur Rackham.
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should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with nor persuaded, but would become uncontrollable and destructive.
via American Institute of Metaphysics
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The Grimm tale The Wedding of Mrs. Fox involves a fox wife testing potential new husbands while her supposedly dead husband lies upstairs. Depending on the version, the entire situation gets stranger from there. Fairy tales occasionally resemble very dysfunctional sitcoms. #FairyTaleTuesday