The Frog and the Mouse

A plate from 1880 illustrating the fable

The Frog and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables and exists in several versions. It is numbered 384 in the Perry Index.[1] There are also Eastern versions of uncertain origin which are classified as Aarne-Thompson type 278, concerning unnatural relationships.[2] The stories make the point that the treacherous are destroyed by their own actions.

  1. ^ Aesopica site
  2. ^ D.L. Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology