Fables

 What is a Fable?

A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson or conveys a moral. You´ll find a lot of personified animals in fables, like talking turtles and wise spiders.  Children tend to find this appealing, making the moral of the story more relevant.  fables are closely associated with fairy tales. A fable always ends with a moral.

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes, and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent works and sometimes from known authors.

The Best Fables by Aesop Everyone Should Know

1.    'The Hare and the Tortoise'. A hare was making fun of a tortoise for moving so slowly. ...

2.    'The Fox and the Hedgehog'. ...

3.    'The Frogs Asking for a King'. ...

4.    The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs'. ...

5.    'The Fox and the Grapes'.