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The Fables of Pilpay

These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and later Joseph Harris in 1679 and then remodeled in 1818. Max Mueller noted that La Fontaine was indebted to the work and other scholars have noted that Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and John Fletcher were both familiar with the fables. The Fables of Pilpay are a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. (Summary by The introduction and Wikipedia)

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Preface (April Mendis)
Introduction (Craig Campbell)
The Story Of Dabschelim And Pilpay (czandra)
The Travelling Pidgeon (Craig Campbell)
The Falcon and the Raven (Rebecca Eden Walker)
The greedy and ambitious Cat (Tasha C Mapes)
The poor Man who became a great King ()
The Leopard and the Lion (Kingsnake)
The Merchant and his Children ()
The King and his two Sons (Tasha C Mapes)
The Demise, the Falcon, and the Raven (Monicha1)
The Countryman and several Rats (Monicha1)
The Carpenter and the Ape (Monicha1)
The two Travellers, and the Lion carved in Stone (Craig Campbell)
The Fox and the Hen (Christina Fu)
The Sparrow and the Sparrow-hawk (Michael MacTaggert)
The King who from a savage Tyrant, became benign and just (Alan Mapstone)
A Raven, a Fox, and a Serpent (Rebecca Eden Walker)
The Crane and the Craw-fish (Craig Campbell)
The Rabbit, the Fox, and the Wolf (Craig Campbell)
The Lion and the Rabbit (Hannah Dormor)
The two Fishermen and the three Fishes (Hannah Dormor)
The Scorpion and the Tortoise (Hannah Dormor)
The Falcon and the Hen (Hannah Dormor)
The Nightingale and the Countryman (April Mendis)
The Hunter, the Fox, and the Leopard (Gini Pug)
The Wolf, the Fox, the Raven, and the Camel (Gini Pug)
The Angel Ruler of the Sea and two Birds, called Gerandi (Ellies)
The Tortoise and two Ducks (Craig Campbell)
Two young Merchants, the one crafty, and the other without Deceit (Michael MacTaggert)
The Frog, the Craw-fish, and the Serpent (Jonathan Gary)
The Gardener and the Bear (Gini Pug)
The Merchant and his Friend ()
The Fox, the Wolf, and the Raven ()
The Ass and the Gardener ()
The Prince and his Minister ()
A Hermit who quitted the Desert to live at Court ()
The blind Man who travelled with one of his Friends ()
A religious Doctor and a Dervise ()
Three envious Persons that found Money ()
The ignorant Physician (Ellies)
The Raven, the Rat, and the Pigeons (Gini Pug)
The Partridge and the Falcon (Michael MacTaggert)
The Man and the Adder (Mary in Arkansas)
The Adventures of Zirac (Alan Mapstone)
A Husband and his Wife (Rebecca Eden Walker)
The Hunter and the Wolf (Michael MacTaggert)
The ravenous Cat (holtonhj64)
The two Friends (Sandy Kurtz)
The Ravens and the Owls (Craig Campbell)
The Origin of the Hatred between the Ravens and the Owls ()
The Elephants and the Rabbits (Jennifer Louise)
The Cat and the two Birds (April Mendis)
The Dervise and the Four Robbers ()
The Merchant, his Wife, and the Robber (April Mendis)
The Dervise, the Thief, and the Devil (Alan Mapstone)
The Monkeys and the Bears (Mary in Arkansas)
The Mouse that was changed into a little Girl (Michael MacTaggert)
The Serpent and the Frogs ()
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