Fable 230 - The Satisfied Wolf and the Ewe

A wolf, well-gorged with food, saw a ewe lying on her back on the ground, unable to right herself. Realizing that she had collapsed
from fright, he approached her and reassured her. He promised that if she would utter three truths he would leave her alone. So the
ewe began by telling him she would like not to have to meet him again, or failing that she would like him to go blind, and thirdly she
wished ‘that wicked wolves would meet violent deaths so that we would suffer no more harm from you and you would make
no more war against us’. The wolf acknowledged her veracity and left her to go her own way.

This fable shows that often truth has this effect on one’s enemies.