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Fables; What is a fable?
- August 16, 2012
- Posted by: admin
- Category: entertainment Entertainment system psychological
A fable is a short tale, story or oral speech, which is spoken for the sake of teaching a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters.
In a fable, images of heroes, supernatural beings, spirits, demons witches, mythical creatures, and forces of nature are used as a tool of inspiration and motivation,
thus; making the listener into a person that finds the reality of his faith and belief in supernatural events of magic, fortunetelling, miracles, chance, favour, and good luck.
Today Holywood and other companies that produces movies use a lot of mythical images of heroes displayed in their movies, so that they can give the children who watch their movies images which represnts their favorite heroes.
The word “fable” comes from the Latin word called “fabula” which means (a “story”), itself derived from “fari” (“to speak”) with the -ula suffix that signifies “little”: hence, a “little story”.
A little story that is meant to impart a moral lesson.
The History of fables:
2 Timothy 4:4 says: ….and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Fables were gentile oral stories of heroes, gods, mythical creatures, and supernatural beings which controlled and governed the gentile (cultures, traditions, tribes or customs).
Every culture and nation on the earth has developed its own fables, and some of these fables were fantasized and written down using the art of writing.
Article taken from www.Ngabo.org/written by Ap Ngabo Alex