Reading Notes: The Fables of La Fontaine, Part B

Myth-Folklore Unit: Fables of La Fontaine, Part B

The Woodman and Mercury:
-There was once a wood chopper who lost his axe
-He prayed to the gods on Olympus for help in finding it
-the god, Mercury, heard his cry for help and in front of the wood chopper appeared a golden axe
-the wood chopper admitted that the gold axe was not his and kept on searching for his axe
-then Mercury made a platinum, silver axe appeared and the wood chopper again responded by saying that this was not his axe
-finally Mercury found his wood and metal (regular) axe and the man was glad to have found his axe
-Mercury rewarded the wood chopper with the fancy gold and silver axes as a reward for his honesty


The Woodman's Axe. Wikimedia.




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