Fable 197 - The Shut-in Lion and the Ploughman

A lion entered a ploughman’s animal shed. The ploughman, wishing to capture him, shut the door behind him. When he found
that he was trapped, the lion killed all the sheep and ate them, and then attacked all the cattle. The ploughman became so
alarmed for his own safety that he opened the door and the lion escaped as quickly as he could.
After the lion had disappeared, the ploughman’s wife finding him wailing came up to him and said:
‘Well, it serves you right. How could you want to shut up the lion, a beast who ought to make you tremble even at a distance?’

People who incite the powerful must bear the consequences of their own folly.