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  1. fables

    Fable 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, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind. Conversely, an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters. Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μῦθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable" in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.A person who writes fables is a fabulist.

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  1. Fables

    Fables is a comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2002. The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables have traveled to our world and formed a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society live at "the Farm" in upstate New York.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fables in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fables in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of fables in a Sentence

  1. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

    History is fables agreed upon.

  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

  3. Denis Johnston:

    Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

  4. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:

    How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

  5. Thomas Jefferson:

    Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

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