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Cry Wolf (Valhalla)
To cry wolf means to raise a false alarm, derived from the fable ''The Boy Who Cried Wolf''. Cry Wolf may also refer to: Music * Cry Wolf (band), a heavy metal band ** Cry Wolf (album), ''Cry Wolf'' (album), their first album * Cry Wolf (A-ha song), "Cry Wolf" (A-ha song), a 1986 song * Cry Wolf (Laura Branigan song), "Cry Wolf" (Laura Branigan song), a 1987 song later covered by Stevie Nicks * Cry Wolf (Cavo song), an album by Cavo * "Cry Wolf", a song by Venom from the 1983 album ''At War with Satan'' * "Cry Wolf", a song by Lisa Germano from the 1994 album ''Geek the Girl'' * "Cry Wolf", a song by Jonathan Thulin from the 2015 album Science Fiction (Jonathan Thulin album), ''Science Fiction'' (Jonathan Thulin album) Film and television * Cry Wolf (1947 film), ''Cry Wolf'' (1947 film), starring Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck * Cry Wolf (1968 film), ''Cry Wolf'' (1968 film), a British film produced by the Children's Film Foundation * Cry Wolf (2005 film), ''Cry Wolf'' (2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in e''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'' and glossed by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved. The fable The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly fools villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his town's flock. When an actual wolf appears and the boy calls for help, the villagers believe that it is another false alarm, and the sheep are eaten by the wolf. In a later English-language poetic version of the fable, the wolf also eats the boy. This happens in ''Fables for '' (1830) by John Hookham Frere, in William Ellery Leonard's ''Aesop & Hyssop'' (1912), and in Louis Untermeyer's 1965 poem. The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, "this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
