Fables
['febl]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of reading or telling fables, denotes pleasant tasks and a literary turn of mind. To the young, it signifies romantic attachments. To hear, or tell, religious fables, denotes that the dreamer will become very devotional.
Typist: Shirley
Examples
- I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The fables we meet with in poems and romances put this entirely out of the question. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Shirley