Explore: Fables Orientales

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE

extremely likely that fables, in particular animal fables, had their principal source in India. — Max Muller, On the Migration of Fables This monocausal hypothesis

those written earlier. The first collection of Fables Choisies had appeared March 31, 1668, dividing 124 fables into six books over its two volumes. They were

Kashifi. The Anvaar Soheili contains fables, including those translated from the Panchatantra, a collection of Indian fables written in Sanskrit, but The Scorpion

verse. Collected works 1772: Œuvres de M. Bret, Text online : 1. Fables orientales et poésies diverses 2. Le Protecteur bourgeois 3. Réflexions sur la

first book of Hitopadesha has nine fables, the second and third each have ten, while the fourth has thirteen fables. The Book 1 is introduced with the

been directly referenced in Fables and its spin-offs Jack of Fables, Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, Cinderella: Fables are Forever and Fairest. Toscane

at si Matsing) also known as The Monkey and the Turtle is a Philippine fable. It involves the tortoise outwitting a monkey over a banana tree. The story

Chinese Fables and Folk Stories, a compilation of 37 tales, was billed as the first book of Chinese fables ever printed in English when it was published

majority are humans. This proportion was reversed in The Fables of Syntipas, a Syriac fable collection also translated by Andreopoulos which accompanied