A Hen finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life. A Swallow, observing what she had done, said, “You silly creature! why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two millennia. His tales typically feature animals whose behaviour carries a pointed moral lesson for human readers. "The Hen and the Swallow" is one of his shorter fables, distilling its cautionary message into a single, striking exchange.
