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The Child and The Crow

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　A mother asked a fortune-teller to tell her her little son's future.

“Your child will be killed by a crow.”

　The fortune-teller said.

　The mother was surprised to hear this, so she arranged a special box which was to keep her son in

　so as not to be killed by a crow.

　The mother kept her son in the box, and opened the lid to give food.

　However, one day

　when the mother tried to close the lid, the son accidentally stuck his head out of the box,

　and hit his head to the lock, then he died.

　The lock was the one called “a crow lock.”



　This story tells us that our destiny cannot be changed easily with shallow thoughts.

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