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Classical Arabic texts: Folk tales

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بَابُ النَّاسِكِ وَابْنِ عِرْسٍ

The Ascetic and the Weasel

A chapter from Kalila wa Dimna, the 8th-century Arabic fable collection. A king asks for a parable about haste. An ascetic leaves his baby in the care of a tame weasel; when he returns and sees blood on its mouth, he acts before he looks. Inside is a second, lighter fable about a hermit who counts his goats before he has them.

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