Many fables originated from an oral tradition and exist in.

Fable is an example of myth. A myth is a story about gods and heroes and how the world came into being while a fable is a story about animals things and forces of nature that are meant to give a moral lesson. What is a parable. A short tale to teach a moral lesson often with animals or inanimate objects as characters.

A story from the past about a historical. The fable is usually a tale about animals who are personified and behave as though they were humans see photograph. The Ant and the Grasshopper is an example of a fable.

It had a moral or lesson. An example of a modern fable is George Orwells Animal Farm which satirizes totalitarianism through the use of farm animals. Some of the best-known fables are those attributed to Aesop an enslaved man who lived in Greece in the sixth century BC.

There is usually one animal who is weak and it often contains a hero or villain. The best examples of the fable in India are the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. See Examples and Observations below A popular modern fable is George Orwells Animal Farm 1945.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears a British story about a girl who breaks into the house of the three bears tries everything out and gets scared away. The moral comes at the beginning of the story. Fable and parable are short simple forms of naive allegory.

T he Fox and the Stork. While a myth is a category of a story that is considered true a fable is a category that is considered false or fictional. The fable should not be confused though it often is with the myth or the more closely related form of writing the parable.