The deception of the moon in the well

fr. Luciano Bertazzo

The fox remains an animal capable of arousing fantasies with a rich symbolic meaning that are still present in our imagination today.

The fox: “mythical” animal for its presence in many fables and legends. Many of us, I think, remember with tenderness the stories that were read to us as children, where this animal often appeared in the scene. Who doesn’t remember the cat and the fox, which have become symbols of cunning and cheating of the “dumb” Pinocchio in the story (full of excellent teachings!) of Carlo Lorenzini, known as Collodi? Perhaps old school memories also re-emerge: the fables of La Fontaine (1621-1695), a re-elaboration of the ancient ones of the Latin Phaedrus, taken in turn by Aesop, a fanciful Greek author who lived five hundred years before Christ, who with his stories – with the fox often as the smart protagonist in “dialogue” with the lion, the stork, the crow, the grape – wanted to give us teachings still valid today.

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