Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoWhere did the trope of "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" come from? Why did it stick around for so long if it is old? Or the whole "Cry Wolf" phrase?message-squaremessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down12
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhere did the trope of "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" come from? Why did it stick around for so long if it is old? Or the whole "Cry Wolf" phrase?Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square3linkfedilink
minus-squarelath@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoI had no idea, so I checked wikipedia. A wolf in sheep’s clothing is an idiom from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount as narrated in the Gospel of Matthew. That would be the earliest recording and after there are various versions involving a wolf and deception created every few centuries. Cry wolf is apparently from Aesop, before he went on a journey to find the One Piece. Oh sorry, my mistake, I misremembered the name…
I had no idea, so I checked wikipedia.
That would be the earliest recording and after there are various versions involving a wolf and deception created every few centuries.
Cry wolf is apparently from Aesop, before he went on a journey to find the One Piece. Oh sorry, my mistake, I misremembered the name…