Daily Aesop's Fables: The Swallow and the Other Birds It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food. "Beware of that man," quoth the Swallow. "Why, what is he doing?" said the others. "That...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Silkworm and Spider Having received an order for twenty yards of silk from Princess Lioness, the Silkworm sat down at her loom and worked away with zeal. A Spider soon came around and asked to hire a web-room near by. The Silkworm acceded, and the Spider commenced...

Daily Aesop's Fables: Mercury and the Woodman A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe, glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water. As he stood by the water's edge lamenting his loss, Mercury appeared and asked him the reason for his...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Lark and Her Young Ones A LARK had made her nest in the early spring on the young green wheat. The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Man and His Two Sweethearts A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Peacock and Juno A Peacock once placed a petition before Juno desiring to have the voice of a nightingale in addition to his other attractions; but Juno refused his request. When he persisted, and pointed out that he was her favorite bird, she said: ~ "Be...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Oak and Jupiter/The Oak and the woodcutter THE OAKS presented a complaint to Jupiter, saying, "We bear for no purpose the burden of life, as of all the trees that grow we are the most continually in peril of the axe." Jupiter made answer: "You have only to thank...

Daily Aesop Fables: The Farmer and the Stork A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray...

First off, the only thing I know about 9 foot circles is that they were used against our gods and it has to deal with binding, because 9 = saturn and circle is probably something else. And thats all I know. I was thinking, and this sounds dangerous, but is there a possibility that 9 foot circles...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Lioness A CONTROVERSY prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the settlement...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The King's Son and the Painted Lion A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and adorned its walls for...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Scorpion and the Frog A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too." The frog is...

I like to scroll through a post just to see how long it is before reading and hilariously I somehow, without even reading, see "Harrison Ford" and then scroll down and see bigfoot. I'm gonna read it pretty instantly :)

For some reason I got an article on Ms. Enheduanna, the first person to ever Author a Book. She was way back in Akkadia and was also the Priest of Lord Inanna/Ishtar. Her dad was King Sargon and led many battles. Now I got recommended a short on him and what he liked to eat. This Guy is also...

Daily Aesop's Fables: The Buffoon and the Countryman At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a...