Aesoplike

English Adjective en Aesop-like. en Edwin A. Burtt Man Seeks the Divine: A Study in the History and Comparison of Religions Harper & Brothers 1957 198 He [Zhuang Zhou] loved to pillory the Confucian thinkers for their proud claims to wisdom and superior rectitude; he teased them with amusing stories about Confucius which are on a par with Aesoplike tales about the “Spirit of the River” and “General Clouds”—the point of many of the stories being that Confucius was really a Taoist in disguise. en The Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin 1967 924 Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, 12th cent. Fables of a Jewish Aesop, tr. from the Fox fables of [the author] by Moses Hadas. Illus. with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. 1967. 233p. illus. Columbia, $5.95. / Predominantly Aesoplike and Aesop-derived fables written by a rabbi of medieval France. en Purposes of Oral Literature Rodney Frey Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest; As Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail, and Other Elders The Civilization of the American Indian Norman, Okla. w:University of Oklahoma Press 1995 174–175 0-8061-3131-4 This is not to suggest that the stories are told for explicitly moralistic reasons. The telling of a particular story is not typically followed by a specific, Aesoplike, “moralistic-commentary.”