A fable is a story, often about animals, that points out some aspect of human behaviour and often has a moral attached to it.

Many collections of fables exist such as the Panchatantram from ancient India, Aesop's from ancient Greece, Phaedrus' from ancient Rome, La Fontaine's fables composed in France in the 17th century, and Joel Chandler Harris' African American fables, the Uncle Remus stories.

From the Panchatantram

The Three Fishes
The Indigo Jackal
The Monkey and the Crocodile
The Talkative Turtle

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Writers of fables

From Aesop

The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Lion and the Mouse
The Ass and the Lapdog
The Cat and the Fox
The Lion with Bad Breath

More fables from Aesop
by Rohini Chowdhury

Aesop's Fables. Scholastic India
ISBN: 81-7655-805-1

From the Uncle Remus Stories of JC Harris

How Brer Rabbit Met Brer Tar Baby