The Boy Who Cried Wolf

" Yaron da Ya Yi Kuka " yana ɗaya daga cikin Tatsuniyoyi na Aesop, mai lamba 210 a cikin Perry Index .  Daga ciki ne aka samo kalmar Ingilishi "kuka kerkeci", wadda aka fassara a matsayin "ba da gargaɗin ƙarya" a cikin Kamus na Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable  kuma Oxford English Dictionary ya fassara shi a matsayin ma'anar yin da'awar ƙarya, sakamakon haka an ƙi yarda da da'awar gaskiya daga baya. 

 Tatsuniya 
Labarin ya shafi wani yaro makiyayi wanda ya yi ta yaudarar mutanen ƙauyen akai-akai don su yi imani cewa kerkeci yana kai hari ga garkensa. Lokacin da kerkeci na gaske ya bayyana kuma yaron ya yi kukan neman taimako, mutanen ƙauyen sun yi watsi da shi a matsayin wani abin tsoro na ƙarya, wanda ya ba kerkeci damar cinye tumakin. A cikin wani sigar waƙar Turanci ta baya, kerkeci shi ma ya cinye yaron. Wannan ya faru a cikin Tatsuniyoyin John Hookham Frere na  (1830),  a cikin Aesop & Hyssop na William Ellery Leonard (1912), The Concise Dictionary...(Cassel Publications 1992) da kuma a cikin waƙar Louis Untermeyer ta 1965. 

Ɗabi'ar da aka ambata a ƙarshen sigar Girkanci ita ce "wannan yana nuna yadda ake ba wa maƙaryata lada: ko da sun faɗi gaskiya, babu wanda ya yarda da su". Yana maimaita maganar da Diogenes Laërtius ya danganta wa Aristotle a cikin littafinsa mai suna The Lives and Ra'ayoyin Masana Falsafa, inda aka tambayi mai hikima abin da waɗanda ke faɗin ƙarya ke samu daga gare shi kuma ya amsa "cewa idan sun faɗi gaskiya ba a yarda da su ba". Illustrations online William Caxton ya rufe sigar tasa da maganar cewa "  ". The Concise Dictionary...(Cassel Publications 1992)

 Tarihi 
Labarin ya samo asali ne daga zamanin gargajiya, amma, tunda an rubuta shi ne kawai da Girkanci kuma ba a fassara shi zuwa Latin ba har zuwa ƙarni na 15, ya fara samun kuɗi ne kawai bayan ya bayyana a cikin tarin tatsuniyoyi na Heinrich Steinhöwel don haka ya bazu a sauran Turai. Saboda wannan dalili, babu wani taken da aka amince da shi don labarin. Caxton ya sanya masa suna "  " (1484), Hieronymus Osius "Yaron da ya yi ƙarya" ("  ", 1574), Francis Barlow "Na garken yaro da manoma" ("  ", 1687), Roger L'Estrange "Yaro da ƙararrawa na ƙarya" (1692), da George Fyler Townsend "Yaron Shepherd and the Kerkeci" (1867). A ƙarƙashin taken ƙarshe ne Edward Hughes ya sanya shi a matsayin Waƙoƙi na farko cikin goma daga Tatsuniyoyin Aesop don muryoyin yara da piano, a cikin sigar waƙa ta Peter Westmore (1965).  Hakanan ya ƙunshi a matsayin na biyu na "Tatsuniyoyin Aesop don mai ba da labari da ƙungiyar mawaƙa" (1999) na Scott Watson (an haife shi a 1964) 

Duk da cewa malamai sun daɗe suna amfani da "Yaron da Ya Yi Kuka a Wuri" a matsayin tatsuniya game da yaudara, wani gwaji da aka gudanar a farkon ƙarni na 21 ya nuna cewa yaran da aka fallasa ga tatsuniya sun fi saurin yin ƙarya. Sabanin haka, waɗanda suka karanta game da George Washington da itacen ceri sun nuna gaskiya mafi girma. Saboda haka, ba da shawara da sakamako mai kyau na ɗabi'ar da aka bayyana, ya zama mabuɗin koyarwar ɗabi'a ga matasa. Duk da haka, lokacin da ake mu'amala da ɗabi'ar manya, Samuel Croxall ya tambaya, yana nuni da fargabar siyasa, "lokacin da muka firgita da haɗarin tunani game da jama'a, har sai kukan ya yi tsauri kuma ya yi duhu, ta yaya za a yi tsammanin ya kamata mu san lokacin da za mu kare kanmu daga waɗanda suke na gaske?"

Rahotannin baya-bayan nan a fannoni daban-daban sun danganta karin maganar da aka samo daga tatsuniyar, "kerke mai kuka", da abin da yanzu aka bayyana a matsayin "faɗakarwa" ko " gajiya mai firgitarwa ", yanayin da Croxall ya ambata a sama.   

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