...It is strange to find fables similar to those of the more northern nations even in the heart of Africa...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...He was a Phrygian by birth, and lived in the time of Croesus, king of Lydia, to whom he dedicated his fables...
Thomas Clarkson 「An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African」
...“I have tried it a hundred times, and they have laughed at me for my fables, as they have termed them...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...In one of Kriloff's fables, God sends a terrible plagueamong the animals, of which they perish in great numbers...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
... This subject is already given in Æsop's Fables, in the twenty-firstfable (ed...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Whom shall we hold responsible for these strange mistakes? La Fontaine,who in most of his fables charms us with his exquisite fineness ofobservation, has here been ill-inspired...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Could we understand thelanguage of insects, what tales of horror would be revealed! Whattraditions, sagas, fables, and myths must adorn the annals of animallife regarding this Dragon among insects!...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...—“There is some excellent drawing in the handsome volumeof One Hundred Fables of La Fontaine, for which Mr...
Percy J. Billinghurst 「A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals」
...It is possible that more of these fables are likewise incidents in tales prevalent among the Tinguian, but not heard by thewriter...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...The last division may be said to be made up of fables, for the story tellers without hesitation label them as fictions...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...According to the illustrated works ofSurgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein, of Greece, these tailed men are notuncommon; it is not impossible that they gave rise to the ancient fables of thesatyrs...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
... what right have we to refuse to accept the most improbable fables...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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