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It weeps and prays to Allah to ask for forgiveness: “I have repented, and will not again tear the body of a mouse with my teeth. A cat in front of me would fare worse than any dog who might happen to cross my path.”Īfter the cat catches and devours the mouse, it feels regret and continues with the next lie. I would cut off his head as if on the battlefield. It’s taken from A Book of Persian Fairy Tales by Henry Altemus and it starts with the mouse’s drunken lie: “Where is the cat?” shouted he, “that I may off with his head. The Cat and the Mouse is a beautiful example of the Persian story telling legacy. The Cat and the Mouse – A Book of Persian Fairy Tales

Here is: The boy who cried wolf or sometimes also translated as “The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf”. He learns his lesson when it is too late: There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth. Aesop tells us the story of a boy who vexes the villagers again and again by crying “Wolf!” even though there was none only to watch them rushing to help. The ancient Greek Master of Fables, Aesop, was often copied and extended, yet the original captivates me through it’s to the point style. The boy who cried wolf – Ancient Greek Fable by Aesop I had to read it a couple of times to get the whole lie 🙂 6. Therefore he promises his daughter’s hand to the anyone who could make the daughter say in astonishment: “That’s a story”. In this popular tale from the North a king has a daughter who is a dreadful story-teller that all lies she heard went in at one ear and out of the other. Sir George Webbee Dasent has collected many Norse folk and fairy tales. Boots, who made the princess say ‘That’s a story’ from Popular Tales from the Norse Update (May 2020): When researching for the my post on Fairy Tales to celebrate Europe Day I came across the Romanian story of Stan Bolovan and had to add it in the memorable mentions section. So I converted my Top 5 to a Top 7 list of fairy and folk tales about lying: Therefore I now included two more stories: “Boots, who made the princess say ‘That’s a story'” and “The boy who cried wolf”, which I – much to my chagrin – had totally forgotten.

However, again and again I remember or become aware new stories about lying.

Update (May 2019): When I first published this post I had picked my Top 5. In fact, I could have easily done the Top 50 fairy and folk about cunning lies and deceitful liars. There are so many tales that it was very tough to chose a Top list at all. While some stories try to teach us a lesson or a moral by giving the liar his deserved punishment, others almost glorify cunning lies as a survival strategy. Therefore fairy tales provide us with a lot of insight into the world’s cultures. Lies and liars have always been an important theme in fairy tales and every tradition has got it’s own takes on the morality of lies. There are countless portrays of liars in fairy and folk tales.