The Bear and the Travelers

Labarin Bear da Travelers tatsuniya ce da aka danganta ta da Aesop kuma tana lamba 65 a cikin Perry Index .  An faɗaɗa ta kuma an ba ta sabuwar ma'ana a zamanin da.

 Tatsuniya ta Gargajiya 
An fara rubuta tatsuniyar a cikin baitin Latin ta Avianus, labarin da malamai suka ba da shawarar a koya wa yara ƙanana game da ɗabi'un ɗabi'a.  Labarin asali na abokai biyu ne da ke tafiya a cikin ƙauye masu wahala waɗanda suka fuskanci beyar kwatsam. Ɗaya daga cikin matafiyan ya ceci kansa ta hanyar hau kan bishiya yayin da ɗayan ya faɗi ƙasa ya yi kamar ya mutu. Dabbar ta matso kusa ta shaƙe shi amma sai ta fita, domin ana ɗaukar beyar ba ta taɓa nama da ya mutu ba. Sai mutumin da ke cikin bishiya ya sauko wurin abokinsa ya tambaye shi cikin barkwanci abin da beyar ke gaya masa. "Shawara ce mai kyau," in ji abokinsa; "ya gaya mini kada in amince da wanda ya bar ka cikin buƙata."

Yin kamar rashin lafiya ko mutuwa wani muhimmin abu ne a cikin tatsuniyoyi da dama. Marubuci kuma ɗan jarida mai nazarin San Francisco Allen Kelly, yana rubutu a shekara ta 1903, yana bincika ra'ayin 'yin wasa da matattu' don guje wa rauni lokacin da beyar ta fuskanci shi kuma ya ba da ra'ayinsa cewa akwai gaskiya a cikin wannan tatsuniyoyi.

 Asalin karin maganar Turawa 
Marigayi marubucin tarihi na zamanin da, Philippe de Commynes, ya rubuta cewa Sarki Louis XI na Faransa ya aika da jakadanci zuwa ga Sarki Frederick III a shekara ta 1475 tare da shawarar raba yankunan Burgundian .  Sarkin ya amsa da labarin yadda abokai uku suka sami yabo a wani masauki ta hanyar yin alƙawarin kama beyar ya zubar da fatarta amma daga ƙarshe aka tilasta musu guduwa; ɗayansu ya faɗi ƙasa, beyar ta shaƙe shi amma daga baya ya bar shi ba tare da ya ji rauni ba. Abokansa suka tambaye shi abin da beyar ta ce, ya amsa "Ba ta taɓa yi min tayin sayar da fatar beyar ba har sai dabbar ta mutu".

Wannan yana ɗaya daga cikin farkon ambaton karin magana da ake samu a duk faɗin Turai, 'Ka kama beyar kafin ka sayar da fatarsa'.  Zuciyar labarin da Sarki ya faɗa ita ce tatsuniyar Aesop, amma yanzu an daidaita ta don ƙarewa da darasin kada a ƙidaya kajin mutum kafin a ƙyanƙyashe su. Bambancin labarin ya bayyana a cikin tarin tatsuniyoyi ɗari na marubucin Neo-Latin Laurentius Abstemius ( Hecatomythium ) wanda aka rubuta wani lokaci a cikin shekarun 1490. An yi wa wannan taken taken De Cortario ente pellem Ursi a Venatore nondum capti (Yadda mai yin fata ya sayi fatar beyar daga mafarauta kafin a ɗauke ta). Amma labaran La Fontaine ne suka tabbatar da ci gaba da shaharar wannan bambancin labarin (V. 20.)  Sigarsa, L'ours et les deux compagnons, iri ɗaya ce da ta Philippe de Commynes baya ga cikakkun bayanai cewa mutane biyu ne kawai suka shiga ciki, ɗaya daga cikinsu ya tsere daga kan bishiya (kamar yadda yake a Aesop). Duk da haka, Aesop ya yi watsi da ɗabi'ar rashin tsammanin nasara a cikin wani kasuwanci kafin a kammala shi saboda labarinsa na The Milkmaid and Her Pail .

 Fassarorin fasaha 
Saboda alaƙar da ke tsakaninta da La Fontaine, a Faransa ne aka fi amfani da tatsuniyar. Louis Lacombe ya sanya ta a matsayin wani ɓangare na Opus 72 ɗinsa a 1875. An yi fim ɗin shiru na mintuna tara ta mai shirya fina-finai Marius O'Gallop a 1920. Mawaki Francis Poulenc ya haɗa shi a matsayin shiri na biyu a cikin shirinsa na rawa Les Animaux modèles (1941)  kuma shine Plate 63 daga cikin tatsuniyoyi ɗari da aka kwatanta da zane-zanen da aka ƙara wa ruwa ta mai zane Marc Chagall (1952). 

Daga cikin waɗanda suka zana daga sigar Aesop, matashin mai fasaha ɗan Scotland Martin Hill ya samar da babban zane mai mai na wurin a shekarar 2009.  A shekarar 1965, mawaƙi Edward Hughes ya haɗa tatsuniya a cikin sigar waƙa ta Peter Westmore a cikin waƙoƙinsa goma daga Aesop's Fables . Akwai kuma saitin da Anthony Plog ya yi don mai ba da labari, ƙaho da piano (2011).

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