Fable

It is told that one day there lived a rabbit in the forest. While he was playing in the forest, he felt hungry. The rabbit ran and kept jumping here and there among the forest trees, searching for food. He saw a lone apple at the top of an apple tree. The rabbit rejoiced and tried to catch it. The apple was high for the rabbit, and he could not reach it. Suddenly, he heard the sound of a crow on a nearby tree. The rabbit called out: Oh crow, can you help me pick this apple? Indeed, the crow flew until he reached the tree and began pecking at the apple with his beak until it fell to the ground and began rolling. The rabbit jumped behind the apple and kept chasing it until it fell on the back of a hedgehog that was playing in the forest. ...

The lazy bear Dubbu sat beside a large tree enjoying its shade, while all the animals in the forest were in a state of activity, each working and striving to get their sustenance, while he looked at them, Dubbu in laziness, as the ants came out of the ant’s small hole on the ground to carry a small piece of food that she had brought for her home. Dubbu looked at them in frustration and wondered: What should I do? I have no food and I don’t want to work either. What should I do? ...

Once there was a kingdom ruled by a king and his queen. But the queen was strong and chose everything in the kingdom herself. She had given birth to a beautiful son, and the queen cared for him extremely, and she chose everything for him: how he dressed, how he ate, how he played, and how he learned until the prince grew up and reached the age of marriage. So the queen called her son the prince to her room and asked the prince: “What are you asking from me, oh mother?” The queen answered him: “You are my only son and I have chosen everything for you in all these years. But now that you have grown up, the time has come for you to choose for yourself a wife, but you must choose a princess who suits you. The princess is not only the king’s daughter but she must be elegant, know how to choose her clothes and how to behave, and the most important of that is that her voice must be beautiful.” ...

Two big fish lived, Sahar and Satwa, in a large pond, and they were close friends with the frog Ikhbari. They spent a lot of time with him on the edge of the pond, and they had a large net and a big boat with them, which were full of fish they had caught. During the evenings, a few fishermen came to catch fish on the pond, and they had a net and a big boat with them, which were full of fish they had caught. ...

There was a wolf named Chandrava. One day, Chandrava was very hungry and couldn’t find any food in the forest. Therefore, he decided to wander in a nearby village looking for food. Immediately, he set off to this village, almost starving from hunger. But he didn’t expect what he saw there. As soon as he reached the village, a group of dogs from every direction gathered around him, kept barking, and attacked him with their sharp teeth. The wolf decided to save his life by fleeing far from this fortified village by dogs. ...

Long ago, in a small village, an old woman lived with her daughter. The old woman worked hard all the time, while the girl was very lazy and extremely selfish. They had a bull, and the old woman always told her daughter: “You must take good care of the bull.” The girl always mocked her old mother’s words and told her: “The bull is an animal, an animal that must serve us and we benefit from it, not us serving it.” There was a pond at a distance from the old woman’s house. Every day at noon, the old woman would take the bull to this pond and give him a drink herself, making him drink from the pond. Meanwhile, the lazy girl would only eat and sleep. ...

In the kingdom of Vidagan, there was a kind and wise king. All the citizens of the kingdom were happy, but the king was always worried and sad, for a devilish snake had entered his son the prince’s body. Neither medicine nor magic could save the prince or heal him from the devilish snake. When the prince grew up and became a young man, he thought that his father felt sadness and worry because of him. One day, the prince decided to leave the palace. He wandered through the kingdom and went to another kingdom. There, he found an abandoned temple and decided to live inside it. He would beg for his food. ...

Once there was a miller who had a beautiful daughter. Her father always praised her, but unfortunately, he often lied about his daughter’s abilities. The daughter was often angry with her father because of his lies. He would apologize to her and promise her that he wouldn’t lie again, but he soon went back on his promises. One day, the miller went to the king and began telling him about his daughter. He told the king that she could spin gold from straw. The king was very happy and asked the miller to bring his daughter to the palace. The miller was confused and feared for himself and his daughter. When he told her, the girl didn’t know what to do. But they had no choice but to go to the king’s palace, otherwise he would kill them. ...

It is told that there was an old man who had three young sons. The man owned a mill, a donkey, and a cat. When the man became ill and was on the verge of death, he distributed his property among his three sons. He gave the first the mill, and gave the second the donkey. As for the third, he gave him the cat. The two older brothers mocked their younger brother because he inherited something of no value. The boy was sad and sat crying, carrying the cat and looking at him. He talked to him and asked him, “What is your use? You are a tame animal, and there’s no benefit from you.” Suddenly, the cat stood up and answered the boy, saying, “I can do many things. I can make you richer than your brothers.” ...

This wondrous story occurred in ancient times, in a distant land whose name the narrators forgot. In that time, a thousand crows lived in that land, and a thousand owls. The crows built their nests among the leaves of a high, dense-branched tree. The owls made their homes in caves inside a large mountain surrounding the crows’ tree. Years passed, year after year. Then a greedy king ruled the owls, neither wise nor brave. One day he looked toward the crows’ tree to be his resort and for his close followers. Because he was cowardly, he didn’t declare war on the black birds, but rather betrayed his black neighbors, the inhabitants of the tree. He attacked them suddenly while they were sleeping in safety, killing a large number of them. ...