The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Also known as The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf, cry wolf, Boy Who Cried Wolf, Halm 353b, Halm 353, Perry 210
Aesop’s fable
Book · Open Library
- Author
- Mairi Mackinnon
- First published
- 1615
- Editions
- 7
- Subjects
- Juvenile fiction, Fables, Pictorial works, Folklore, Truthfulness and falsehood, Children: Grades 1-2, Children's fiction, Shepherds, fiction
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Boycriedwolfbarlow.jpg
Article
Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687 "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.
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