History: The topic of Aesop’s Fables: what is known about Aesop (apparently an expert observant of bird behavior), the fable (its history and relationship to the word “fabulous”), fables as sources of various expressions in the English language (example: sour grapes), and the Chicagoan Dennison Hull who translated Aesop into verse. The author also considers the creation of Santa Claus and Biblical parables.