The Old Man and Death: We'd often be sorry if our wishes were granted. An old man is tired of working and shouts that he wants to die. Death comes, but the old man doesn't really want to die.
The Swallow and the Other Birds: Destroy the seed of evil, before it grows up and destroys you. Some birds were watching a man sowing hemp seeds. The Swallow told them to eat all the hemp seeds, but they disregarded him. Then the seeds grew into hemp and rope was made of it, which captured the birds.
The Trees and the Axe: By yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own. A woodsman asked some trees for wood for his axe; the trees let him have a young ash. He used it to make an axe, with which he chopped down the whole forest.
The vine and the goat: Retribution is certain. A goat was eating some vines. The vines said to him that it'd get revenge by being the wine poured on the goat's body as it was sacrificed.
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