
The Psychology of Aesops Fables
The Blindboy Podcast
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Donkeys and Asses in Folklore
Humans began farming 15 thousand years ago. Only when humans began farming did we start to acquaint ourselves with asses, with donkeys. A donkey does not connote status or wealth. In folklore and in art, often represented kind of a lower class donkeys were looked down upon. Donkeys are also in rently funny. Horses aren't. horses are like sexy and big and muscular and tall. And a horse's nay has confidence to it. But the donkey is just silly conts. Like, their ears are huge, their tails are a bit silly, and the noise that a donkey makes, it sounds like its consistently having both an asthma attack and a panic attack at once
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