Haim Schwarzbaum analyzed the tradition of these things relative to the work of Berechiah ha-Nakdan. The “age” of these things titles the first volume of a collection by Thomas Bullfinch. These things are used to describe how to gain and lose friends in the Hitopadesha (“hit-oh-puh-DAY-shuh”). Several of these things created by Bidpai depict two jackals named Kalīlah and Dimnah. The first recreation of Proto-Indo-European literature was one of these texts by August Schleicher. Richard Bentley reattributed to Babrius several examples of these texts which are now ordered in the Perry Index. A collection of these texts includes one about a stork ruling over frogs and another about a crow who drops stones into a water pitcher. For 10 points, animals often feature in what moral stories collected by authors like Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop? ■END■
ANSWER: fables [accept Aesop’s fables; prompt on myths or mythology; prompt on tales or fairy tales or tall tales; prompt on parables; prompt on morals or aphorisms or maxims by asking “as part of what larger kind of work?”; prompt on stories until read]
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