The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
A hungry wolf found great difficulty in getting at a flock of sheep, due to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs. But one day the wolf found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep. The lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the wolf was wearing, began to follow the wolf in the sheep’s clothing, and so, by leading the lamb a little astray, he soon made a meal of her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoyed hearty meals of them.
by Aesop
Moral, or lesson, of the story: Appearances can be deceiving, and therein lies danger.
Aesop may or may not have been an actual person. If real, he would have been born in about 620 B.C.E. He would have been a fabulist, or storyteller, credited with a number of works known collectively as, “Aesop’s Fables.” In some of the stories, animals possess human traits, such as the ability to speak or hold jobs. Most of the stories teach a moral lesson. Aesop would have passed on at about 56 years of age in about 564 B.C.E.
A hungry wolf found great difficulty in getting at a flock of sheep, due to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs. But one day the wolf found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep. The lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the wolf was wearing, began to follow the wolf in the sheep’s clothing, and so, by leading the lamb a little astray, he soon made a meal of her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoyed hearty meals of them.
by Aesop
Moral, or lesson, of the story: Appearances can be deceiving, and therein lies danger.
Aesop may or may not have been an actual person. If real, he would have been born in about 620 B.C.E. He would have been a fabulist, or storyteller, credited with a number of works known collectively as, “Aesop’s Fables.” In some of the stories, animals possess human traits, such as the ability to speak or hold jobs. Most of the stories teach a moral lesson. Aesop would have passed on at about 56 years of age in about 564 B.C.E.
