The story of 'Chicken Little' is believed to be one of Aesop's Fables. A slave and story-teller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. His stories are well known to most of the world and are used by teachers, educators and other story tellers for moral. Some of the ones that come to mind quite easily are, the tortoise and the hare, the boy who cried wolf and of course chicken little.
The sky is falling is a phrase used often enough associated with the belief that disaster is imminent. Chicken Little mistakenly believed that the sky was falling. While eating lunch one day an acorn fell on his head so he rushed off to tell the King all about it. Picking up others like Goosey Loosey, Ducky Lucky and Cockey Lockey he now has created mass hysteria to which a sly Foxy Loxy manipulates to his advantage and gets his own supper.
That's the basic plot of the Fable and one of a few versions. In the happy ending version the moral of the story is don't be a chicken but have courage. And don't believe everything your told.
Some of today's 'the sky is falling' tales I can think of are:
- Global Warming
- 2012 Predictions
- The Prophesied End Time
- Everything causes Cancer - don't eat it
- Bird Flu - H1N1
- Major killer Earthquakes - Natural disasters
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