The Crow And The Snake
- ️Sun Jul 07 2024
"Crow and the snake" is one of Aesop's Fables. One day a crow gets hungry and hunts down a snake. Only for the snake to bite and kill it. The lesson to be learned is that a good fortune may not be all what seems to be.
Tropes:
- Adaptation Species Change:
- Another version replaces the crow with a hawk and the snake with an octopus.
- Another version replaces the crow with a raven and the snake with a scorpion.
- Downer Ending: The crow was only looking for food, but gets bitten by a snake after hunting it down, and the bird loses both its prey and life.
- Minimalist Cast: The titular animals are the only two characters in this tale.
- Nameless Narrative: No one is ever named in this story.
- The Noun and the Noun: It is called "crow and the snake".