The Milkmaid and Her Pail is a folktale of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1430 about interrupted daydreams of wealth and fame. Ancient tales of this type exist...

a milkmaid. The folktale The milkmaid and her pail is a cautionary tale about a milkmaid who spends her time daydreaming. The California native flower...

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true...

The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests...

gods The Moon and her Mother The Mountain in Labour The Mouse and the Oyster The North Wind and the Sun The Oak and the Reed The Old Man and Death The Old...

Milkmaid and Her Pail (La laitière et le pot au lait, VII.10) The miller, his son and the donkey (Le meunier, son fils, et l’âne, III.1) The miser who...

Snake The Heron and the Fish Jumping from the frying pan into the fire The milkmaid and her pail The miller, his son and the donkey The Monkey and the Cat...

Pot is similar to Aesop's The Milkmaid and Her Pail, The Gold-Giving Snake is similar to Aesop's The Man and the Serpent and Le Paysan et Dame serpent...

Aesop's The Milkmaid and Her Pail, was claimed by Max Müller to originate in the Hindu cycle Panchatantra. Tale 2, "What happened to a good Man and his Son...

accomplished for his fable of The Milkmaid and Her Pail. Because of the connection with La Fontaine, it is in France that one finds the fable most used. Louis...