3. The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country.
4. It fable of the Crow and the Fox, it fable of the Fox and the woodcutter, the goose and the golden eggs, the fox and the hare
5. Definition
6. Main Features
7. is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as the ability to speak human language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim or saying.
8. indicated that "it is a didactic genre which tends to make criticism of customs and local or national, vices, but also of the universal characteristics of human nature in general
